Editing Tunic (section)

{{Short description|Simple T-shaped or sleeveless garment, usually unfitted, of archaic origin}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox clothing item
| image_file    = Coptic - Tunic - Walters 83484.jpg
| caption       = [[Coptic textiles|Coptic]]-[[Byzantine clothing|Byzantine]] wool tunic, small enough for a child (6th century) ([[Walters Art Museum]])
| type          = clothing reaching from the shoulders to a length somewhere between the hips and the ankles
| material      = [[fabric]]
}}
A '''tunic''' is a [[clothing|garment]] for the [[torso]], usually simple in style, reaching from the shoulders to a length somewhere between the hips and the ankles. It might have arm-sleeves, either short or full-length.  Most forms have no fastenings. The name derives from the [[Latin]] ''[[:wikt:tunica|tunica]]'', the basic garment worn by both men and women in [[Ancient Rome]], which in turn was based on earlier [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] garments that covered wearers' waists.

The term is likely borrowed from a [[Semitic languages|Semitic word]] *''kittan'' with [[metathesis (linguistics)|metathesis]]. The word [[khiton]] ({{langx|grc|χῐτών}}) is of the same origin.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haupt |first1=Paul |title=The Book of Canticles |journal=The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |date=1902 |volume=18 |issue=4 |page=226-7 |doi=10.1086/369453 |jstor=527750 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/527750  |issn=1062-0516}}</ref>