a toga, an outer garment worn by Roman patrician men · a gown worn by academics, Christian priests or ministers, and certain members of the legal profession
köken: According to NE: From Old Swedish kappa, from Medieval Latin cappa. According to SAOB online: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, ultimately from Late Latin cappa. According to Svensk etymologisk ordbok: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, borrowed from a Romance language, from Medieval Latin cappa, byform of cāpa, probably shortenings of a word derived from…
köken: From Middle Irish gúna (“gown; outer tunic or dress”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman gune, goune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, English gown.
köken: From Proto-Albanian *pait- (“gown, cloak”), a derivation with the suffix -kë. Cognate with Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “tunic, shirt”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē). A loanword from Gothic is also phonetically possible. Orel considers it a derivation from petë, reconstructing Proto-Albanian *patika.
Etymology unclear. Possibly a word from a language in Sicily (cf. Hesychius' mention of ἀβολεῖς: περιβολαὶ ὑπὸ Σικελῶν 'a garment amongst the Sicilians' and the Sicilian town of Ἀβόλλα mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium).