Tunic

Coptic-Byzantine wool tunic, small enough for a child (6th century AD) (Walters Art Museum)

A tunic is a garment for the body, usually simple in style, reaching from the shoulders to a length somewhere between the hips and the knees. The name derives from the Latin tunica, the basic garment worn by both men and women in Ancient Rome, which in turn was based on earlier Greek garments that covered wearers' waists.

The term is likely borrowed from a Semitic word *kittan with metathesis. The word khiton (Ancient Greek: χῐτών) is of the same origin.[1]

  1. ^ Haupt, Paul (1902). "The Book of Canticles". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 18 (4): 226-7. doi:10.1086/369453. ISSN 1062-0516. JSTOR 527750.

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