epitrachelion

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἐπιτραχήλιον (epitrakhḗlion), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios, “on the neck”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns). ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios) is from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon, on top of, covering”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on; at; near”)) + τράχηλος (trákhēlos, “neck”) + -ῐος (-ios) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix forming adjectives)).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiliɒn/, /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiljən/, /-ˈkiː-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪtɹɑˈkiliɔn/
• Hyphenation: epi‧tra‧che‧li‧on

epitrachelion (plural epitrachelions)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
   • 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, →ISBN, page 232:

     little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.

   • 1987, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 26, Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, →ISBN, page 878, column 2:

     The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.

   • 2014, Linda Safran, “Notes”, in The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 373, footnote 14:

     The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.

• alb
• epigonation
• epimanikion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

• “epitrachelion”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 11 February 2017.
• “epitrachelion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “epitrachelion”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 11 February 2017, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

• epitrachelion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia