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pallium

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæ.li.əm/
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  • Rhymes: -æliəm
  • Hyphenation: pal‧li‧um

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
  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. [from 11th c.]
    • 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. [from 19th c.]
  4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
  5. (botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
  6. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin pallium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑlːium/, [ˈpɑ̝lːium]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlːium
  • Syllabification(key): pal‧li‧um
  • Hyphenation(key): pal‧li‧um

Noun

pallium

  1. pallium (vestment)

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Noun

pallium m (plural palliums)

  1. pallium

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