pallium

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English

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a liturgical pallium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
  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.
    • 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, 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, published 2010, page 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, published 2017, page 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.
  4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  5. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

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Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin pallium.

Pronunciation

Noun

pallium

  1. pallium (vestment)

Declension

Inflection of pallium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative pallium palliumit
genitive palliumin palliumien
partitive palliumia palliumeja
illative palliumiin palliumeihin
singular plural
nominative pallium palliumit
accusative nom. pallium palliumit
gen. palliumin
genitive palliumin palliumien
partitive palliumia palliumeja
inessive palliumissa palliumeissa
elative palliumista palliumeista
illative palliumiin palliumeihin
adessive palliumilla palliumeilla
ablative palliumilta palliumeilta
allative palliumille palliumeille
essive palliumina palliumeina
translative palliumiksi palliumeiksi
abessive palliumitta palliumeitta
instructive palliumein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pallium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative palliumini palliumini
accusative nom. palliumini palliumini
gen. palliumini
genitive palliumini palliumieni
partitive palliumiani palliumejani
inessive palliumissani palliumeissani
elative palliumistani palliumeistani
illative palliumiini palliumeihini
adessive palliumillani palliumeillani
ablative palliumiltani palliumeiltani
allative palliumilleni palliumeilleni
essive palliuminani palliumeinani
translative palliumikseni palliumeikseni
abessive palliumittani palliumeittani
instructive
comitative palliumeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative palliumisi palliumisi
accusative nom. palliumisi palliumisi
gen. palliumisi
genitive palliumisi palliumiesi
partitive palliumiasi palliumejasi
inessive palliumissasi palliumeissasi
elative palliumistasi palliumeistasi
illative palliumiisi palliumeihisi
adessive palliumillasi palliumeillasi
ablative palliumiltasi palliumeiltasi
allative palliumillesi palliumeillesi
essive palliuminasi palliumeinasi
translative palliumiksesi palliumeiksesi
abessive palliumittasi palliumeittasi
instructive
comitative palliumeinesi

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pallium m (plural palliums)

  1. pallium

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pallium n (genitive palliī or pallī); second declension

  1. cloak
  2. coverlet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. (Christianity) pallium

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium.

Noun

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

  1. (Christianity) pallium

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium or French pallium.

Noun

pallium n (plural palliumuri)

  1. pallium

Declension