toga virilis

American  

[toh-guh vi-rahy-lis, -ree-, taw-gah wi-ree-lis] / ˈtoʊ gə vɪˈraɪ lɪs, -ˈri-, ˈtɔ gɑ wɪˈri lɪs /

noun

togae viriles plural

1. the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.

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toga virilis British  

/ vɪˈraɪlɪs /

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) the toga assumed by a youth at the age of 14 as a symbol of manhood and citizenship

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• togae viriles
  plural

Etymology

Origin of toga virilis

1590–1600; < Latin toga virīlis; see toga, virile

Example Sentences

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toga virilis

In the light of it, she assumes her toga virilis; and it is sacred to her god Liber.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

If you want to bathe you walk into the sea as you stand, or hand your toga virilis to the bystanders, if any.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

Of these boys, until they took the toga virilis, he says hardly anything in his letters to Atticus, though Atticus was the uncle of the elder boy.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

Cicero himself was thus apprenticed to Mucius Scaevola the augur: and in the same way the young Caelius, as soon as he had taken his toga virilis, was brought by his father to Cicero.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

After they had arrived at the age of seventeen, young men assumed the toga virilis.

From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.