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ID: 300220530
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300220530

 

Record Type: concept
cothurni (<boots by form>, boots (footwear), ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: A thick-soled boot reaching to the middle of the leg, worn by huntsmen and men of upperclasses in ancient Greece and Rome, also by tragic actors in Athenian drama. They often took the form of calf-high laced boots, sometimes with a cork wedge to increase the wearer's height.
 
Terms:
cothurni (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
cothurnus (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
cothurns (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
kothornos (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
cothurnen (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
cothurn (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)
Kothurn (C,V,German-P,D,SN)
Kothurni (C,V,German,AD,PN)
coturnos (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,PN)
coturno (C,U,Spanish,AD,U,SN)
conturno (C,U,Spanish,UF,U,SN)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TE

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Costume (hierarchy name)
........ Costume (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of costume (mode of fashion)
............ costume (mode of fashion) (G)
Hierarchy of costume accessories
................ costume accessories (G)
Hierarchy of worn costume accessories
.................... worn costume accessories (G)
Hierarchy of <accessories by location on the legs or feet>
........................ <accessories by location on the legs or feet> (G)
Hierarchy of footwear
............................ footwear (G)
Hierarchy of <footwear by form>
................................ <footwear by form> (G)
Hierarchy of boots (footwear)
.................................... boots (footwear) (G)
Hierarchy of <boots by form>
........................................ <boots by form> (G)
Hierarchy of cothurni
............................................ cothurni (G)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Veterlaarzen tot op de kuiten, soms met een sleehak van kurk om de drager langer te maken; werden gedragen door jagers en mannen uit de hogere standen in het oude Griekenland en Rome en tevens door tragedie-acteurs aan het Atheense toneel. 
German ..... Ein dicksohliger Stiefel, der bis zur Mitte des Beines reichte, von Jägern und Männern der Oberschicht im antiken Griechenland und Rom getragen, auch von Tragödien-Darstellern im Athenischen Drama. Er nahm oft die Form eines wadenlangen, hochgeschnürten Stiefels an, manchmal mit einem Keilabsatz aus Kork, um die Größe des Trägers zu erhöhen. 

Sources and Contributors:
conturno............  [CDBP-SNPC, VP]
.................  Turner Wilcox, La Moda en el Vestir (1946)
cothurn............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
cothurnen............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
....................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
....................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
cothurni............  [VP Preferred]
.................  Oxford English Dictionary (1961)
.................  Random House Dictionary of the English Language (1987)
.................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
cothurns............  [VP]
.................  Random House Dictionary of the English Language (1987)
cothurnus............  [VP]
....................  Calasibetta, Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion (1988) illustration, 141
....................  Random House Dictionary of the English Language (1987)
coturno............  [CDBP-SNPC, VP]
.................  TAA database (2000-)
coturnos............  [CDBP-SNPC Preferred, VP]
.................  TAA database (2000-)
kothornos............  [VP]
....................  Picken, Fashion Dictionary (1957)
Kothurn............  [IfM-SMB-PK Preferred]
.................  Kühnel, Bildwörterbuch der Kleidung und Rüstung (1992) 146
.................  Loschek, Reclams Mode- und Kostümlexikon (2011) 202
.................  Thiel, Geschichte des Kostüms (2004) 25
Kothurni............  [IfM-SMB-PK]
.................  AAT-Deutsch (2012-)
 
Subject: .....  [CDBP-SNPC, IfM-SMB-PK, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Legacy AAT data
.......... Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
German .......... [IfM-SMB-PK]
.......... IfM Berlin

 

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