petasus

English

Hermes with a petasus.

Alternative forms

• petasos

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin petasus, and its source, Koine Greek πέτασος (pétasos), from Ancient Greek πεταννύναι (petannúnai, “to spread out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtəsəs/

Noun

petasus (plural petasi)

1. (historical) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 238:

     Their faces were shadowed beneath broad-brimmed, low-crowned petasoses.

Translations

low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans

• Basque: petaso
• Bulgarian: петасос (petasos)
• Catalan: pétasos
• Dutch: petasus
• Esperanto: petazo
• French: pétase (fr)
• German: Petasos
• Greek:

  Ancient: πέτασος m (pétasos)

• Hungarian: petasus
• Italian: petaso
• Korean: 페타소스 (petasoseu)
• Norwegian: petasos
• Polish: petasos
• Portuguese: pétaso
• Russian: петас (petas)
• Spanish: petaso

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέτασος (pétasos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛt̪äs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛːt̪äs̬us]

Noun

petasus m (genitive petasī); second declension

1. a travelling hat or cap with a broad brim
2. (architecture) something in the shape of a cap, placed on a building; a cap, cupola

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	petasus	petasī
Genitive	petasī	petasōrum
Dative	petasō	petasīs
Accusative	petasum	petasōs
Ablative	petasō	petasīs
Vocative	petase	petasī

Descendants

• French: pétase
• Italian: petaso

References

• “petasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• petasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “petasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “petasus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin