chemise

From Middle English chemise, from late Old English ċemes, cemes (“shirt”), and Anglo-Norman chemés (“shirt”) and Old French chainse, chamisae (“linen clothes, undergarment”); all from Late Latin camisa, camisia (“shirt, undergarment, nightgown”), from Frankish *chamithia, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją (“clothes, shirt, skirt”) (whence also Old English hemeþe), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”). Cognate with Old High German hemidi (“shirt”) (German Hemd), Old English hemeþe (“shirt”), ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈmiːz/

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.

• chemisette

• shimmy

• schemie

From Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisia, from Gaulish camisia, possibly ultimately from a Germanic reflex of Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją.

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.miz/

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chemise f (plural chemises)

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

• Antillean Creole: chimiz
• English: chemise, shimmy
• Esperanto: ĉemizo
• Guianese Creole: chimiz
• Karipúna Creole French: ximiz
• Louisiana Creole French: chimiz, chimij, chmiz, chimiy, chmij
• Neapolitan: scemisse
• Seychellois Creole: simiz, cemiz
• Vietnamese: sơ-mi

• “chemise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cemise

From Late Latin camisia, from Transalpine Gaulish, of Germanic (Frankish) origin, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją.

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

1. shirt; overshirt