English
peplum
Peplum comes from Latin peplum ‘robe of state’, and goes back to Ancient Greek πέπλος.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπέπλοςpéplonas πέπλον‘embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpeplum‘robe of state’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837peplum
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπέπλοςpéplonas πέπλον‘embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpeplum‘robe of state’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837peplum
Earliest quotation: 1837, : Ralph Cudworth, D. D.: “And this was Neith, or Athena, that God thus…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘to fold’
film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, powder, fold, pulse, complain, pillow, flaw, pollen, repeal, palate, compulsive, palpable, palatable, expel, palladium, pall, propel, wallow, repel, polemic, pelt, peloton, pollinate, palatal, muffle, pulver, tuple, palp, pillion, apoplexy, interpolate, 63 more
Another origin of peplum
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπέπλωνpéplōn
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpeplum
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpéplum‘peplum (all senses)’
- Englishtodaypeplum
Today it means
noun A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek πέπλος / peplum