cyclas

English

Etymology

Compare ciclatoun.

Noun

cyclas

1. A long gown or surcoat, cut off in front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.
   • 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

     The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

   • 1995, Henry William Carless Davis, Francis Pierrepont Barnard, Medieval England:

     The effigy of Sir John de Lyons (1346) at Warkworth, in Northamptonshire, shows slight further changes; a gambeson, a sleeved haketon, and a cyclas are worn.

2. A rich stuff from which such gowns were made.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cyclas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κυκλάς (kuklás).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈky.klas/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪äs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.klas/, [ˈt͡ʃiːkläs]

Noun

cyclas f (genitive cyclatis); third declension

1. a circular, white or purple formal robe with a border

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cyclas	cyclatēs
genitive	cyclatis	cyclatum
dative	cyclatī	cyclatibus
accusative	cyclatem	cyclatēs
ablative	cyclate	cyclatibus
vocative	cyclas	cyclatēs

References

• “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers