pallium

pallium

English

a liturgical pallium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪəm/
• (US) 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.]
   • 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., OCLC 1246230498, Act III, scene i, page 76:

     Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?

   • 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

• pallial
• subpallium
• nidopallium
• mesopallium
• hyperpallium

Related terms

Related terms

• palliation
• palliate
• palliative

Translations

liturgical vestment

Finnish: pallium (fi) Middle English: pallioun Ukrainian: паллій m (pallij), палліум m (pallium)

cloak

Bulgarian: мантия (bg) f (mantija) Finnish: pallium (fi) Ukrainian: мантія f (mantija)

mantle of mollusk

Bulgarian: мантия (bg) f (mantija) Finnish: vaippa (fi)

sheet of cloud

Finnish: pilvipeite

cerebral cortex — see cerebral cortex

Further reading

• pallium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• pallium in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• pallium at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pulliam

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French

Noun

pallium m (plural palliums)

1. pallium

Further reading

• “pallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.li.um/, [ˈpälːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.li.um/, [ˈpälːium]

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

• palliastrum
• palliātus
• palliolātim
• palliolum

Related terms

• palliolātus

Descendants

• → Albanian: pajë
• → English: pallium
• → Italian: pallio, palio
• → Old English: pæl
  • Middle English: pal
    • English: pall
• Old French: paile
  • French: poêle
• → Old French: pallion
  • → Middle English: pallioun
• → Old Irish: caille
  • Middle Irish: caille
    • 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)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pallium n (definite singular iet, indefinite plural ier, definite plural ia or iene)

1. (Christianity) pallium

References

• “pallium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium.

Noun

pallium n (definite singular palliet, indefinite plural pallium, definite plural pallia)

1. (Christianity) pallium

References

• “pallium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin pallium or French pallium.

Noun

pallium n (plural palliumuri)

1. pallium

Declension

Declension of pallium

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pallium	palliumul	(niște) palliumuri	palliumurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pallium	palliumului	(unor) palliumuri	palliumurilor
vocative	palliumule		palliumurilor