sakkos

sakkos

See also: Sakkos

English

Alternative forms

• saccos

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.

Noun

sakkos (plural sakkoses or sakkoi)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 515:

     When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.

Coordinate terms

• alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, omophorion, rhason, sticharion, zone

Translations

vestment

Greek: σάκκος (el) (sákkos)

Anagrams

• Kosaks