tunic

A Roman dressed in a tunic.

Meaning

A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.

Borrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic; see also Aramaic , Hebrew כותנת; or from Etruscan. Existed in Old English as tunece; unknown if term was lost and then reborrowed later.

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