Borrowed fromLatintrabea.
trabea (pluraltrabeae)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) Atoga ofpurple, orornamented with purplehorizontalstripes, worn bykings,consuls, andaugurs.
1767, Basil Kennett,Romae Antiquae Notitia:When the emperors were themselves consuls, they wore aTrabea adorned with gems, which were allowed to none else.
Perhaps fromtrabs(“rafter, beam”) +-eus, in reference to the horizontal stripes of red or purple that adorned the garment.
trabea f (genitivetrabeae);first declension
- A white or purpletoga, or possiblymantle, ornamented with red or purplestripes, associated with theequestrian class.
- The purple-borderedtogapraetexta worn byaugurs, other priests, and certain Republican officials.
- A red or purple garment said to have been worn by Romulus and other early Romankings andconsuls, also used to decorate divine images.
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) The elaborate ornamental dress of lateImperial consuls.
First-declension noun.
- → Ancient Greek:τραβέα(trabéa)
- “trabea”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trabea”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "trabea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- trabea inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “trabea”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “trabea”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
