chlamys
/ˈklæmɪs/noun
chlamys is a noun meaning “A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-A-M-Y-S, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chlamys is chlamyses or chlamydes.
What does chlamys mean?
noun
- 1
A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chlamys?
- US /ˈklæmɪs/
- UK /ˈklamɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chlamys.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chlamys
- chlamyses plural
- chlamydes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlamys?
Chlamys appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Chlamys in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense short cloak:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chlamys come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlămŭ́s).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).