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Latin
Etymology
From palli(um) (“large cloak worn by Greek philosophers”) + -astrum.
Pronunciation
Noun
palliastrum n (genitive palliastrī); second declension
- A poor or ragged cloak or mantle.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “palliastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- palliastrum 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)
- palliastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “palliastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers