pallium

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by 67.70.33.184 (talk) as of 06:06, 14 January 2020.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
a liturgical pallium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈpalɪəm/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈpæliəm/

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
  2. (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. [from 11th c.]
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 339:
      Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.
    • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 23:
      Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.
  3. (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
  4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
  5. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]

Derived terms

Derived terms
Related terms

Translations

cerebral cortex — see cerebral cortex

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Related to palla (“cloak, robe”), but further etymology is unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pallium n (genitive palliī or pallī); second declension

  1. cloak
  2. coverlet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pallium pallia
Genitive palliī
pallī1 		palliōrum
Dative palliō palliīs
Accusative pallium pallia
Ablative palliō palliīs
Vocative pallium pallia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Derived terms

Template:der-mid

Descendants

  • → Albanian: pajë
  • → English: pallium
  • → Italian: pallio, palio
  • → Old Irish: caille
  • → Portuguese: pálio
  • → Spanish: palio

Further reading

  • “pallium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pallium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pallium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pallium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pallium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pallium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pallium&oldid=58409356"