pallium
English
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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)
- (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
- (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.
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- (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (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
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cloak
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mantle of mollusk
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sheet of cloud
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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
French
Noun
pallium m (plural palliums)
- pallium
Further reading
- “pallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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
- cloak
- 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
- Middle English: pal
- Old French: paile
- French: poêle
- → Old French: pallion
- → Middle English: pallioun
- → Old Irish: caille
- Middle Irish: caille
- Irish: caille
- Middle 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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pallium n (definite singular iet, indefinite plural ier, definite plural ia or iene)
- (Christianity) pallium
References
- “pallium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pallium.
Noun
pallium n (definite singular palliet, indefinite plural pallium, definite plural pallia)
- (Christianity) pallium
References
- “pallium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin pallium or French pallium.
Noun
pallium n (plural palliumuri)
- pallium
Declension
Declension of pallium
singular | plural | |||
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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 |