chemise

From French chemise, from Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisa, camisia ("shirt, undergarment, nightgown"; whence Old English cemes (“shirt”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”) (whence Old English hemeþe, Old High German hemidi, modern German Hemd (“shirt”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”).

Cognate also with Saterland Frisian Hoamd (“shirt”), Dutch hemd (“shirt”), Old English ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈmiːz/, /ʃəˈmiːs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈmiːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

chemise (plural chemises)

1. (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
2. A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
3. A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
4. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

• chemise cagoule
• chemise lifter
• chemisette

• camis
• shimmy

• schemie

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.miz/
• Homophones: chemisent, chemises

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Inherited from Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisia, from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”).

chemise f (plural chemises)

1. shirt
2. folder (office supplies)
3. chemise (wall-enforcing earthwork)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chemise

1. inflection of chemiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chemise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cemise, chemes, chamisae

Inherited from Late Latin camisia.

chemise oblique singular, f (oblique plural chemises, nominative singular chemise, nominative plural chemises)

1. shirt; overshirt

• Gallo: chminzz
• French: chemise
  • Antillean Creole: chimiz
  • Guianese Creole: chimiz
  • Karipúna Creole French: ximiz
  • Louisiana Creole: chimiz, chimij, chmiz, chimiy, chmij
  • Seychellois Creole: simiz, cemiz
  • → English: chemise
  • → Ladino: shemiz
  • → Neapolitan: scemisse
  • → Scots: chemeis
  • → Vietnamese: sơ-mi
  • → Yemeni Arabic: شميز
  (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: queminse (continental Normandy), qu'minse, ch'minse (Guernsey), c'mînse (Jersey)
• Walloon: tchimijhe
• → Middle English: chemise
  • English: chemise