Etymology

clothes

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Today it means: Items of clothing; apparel. Full definition →

Middle English clothes ← Old English clāþas
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clothes · noun1

  1. Old English · inherited fromclāþas“clothes”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromclothes
  3. English todayclothes

From Middle English clothes, cloþes (plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”)), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”, plural of clāþ (“cloth”)), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Dutch klederen, kleren (“clothes”), German Kleider (“clothes”), Danish klæder (“clothes”), Swedish kläder (“clothes”), Norwegian Bokmål klær (“clothes”), Norwegian Nynorsk klede (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“clothes”).

clothes · verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishclāþas all →

claes

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