pallium
English
Noun
pallium (plural pallia or palliums)
- (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
- (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.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 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 2017, p. 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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 339:
- (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.li.um/, [ˈpal.li.ʊ̃]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pallium | pallia |
Genitive | palliī pallī1 |
palliōrum |
Dative | palliō | palliīs |
Accusative | pallium | pallia |
Ablative | palliō | palliīs |
Vocative | pallium | pallia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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, 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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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