petasus

• petasos

Borrowed from Latin petasus, and its source, Koine Greek πέτασος (pétasos), from Ancient Greek πεταννύναι (petannúnai, “to spread out”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtəsəs/

petasus (plural petasi)

1. (historical) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 238:

     Their faces were shadowed beneath broad-brimmed, low-crowned petasoses.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέτασος (pétasos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛt̪äs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛːt̪äs̬us]

petasus m (genitive petasī); second declension

1. a travelling hat or cap with a broad brim
2. (architecture) something in the shape of a cap, placed on a building; a cap, cupola

Second-declension noun.

• French: pétase
• Italian: petaso

• “petasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• petasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “petasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “petasus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin