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epitrachelion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiljən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiliɒn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /-ˈkiː-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌɛpɪtɹɑˈkiliɔn/ (General-American)

Etymology

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 (-ĭos) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix forming adjectives)).

Meanings

  1. (qualifier: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.
    • The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date. 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:
    • [A] 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. 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, page 232
    • 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. 1987, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 26, Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, →ISBN, page 878, column 2:

Forms

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Coordinates

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

Translations (24)

bg епитрахи́л (vestment) · uk єпітрахи́ль (vestment) · ja エピタラヒリ (vestment) · nl epitrachelion (vestment) · sh епитрахиљ (vestment) · id epitrachelion (vestment) · sk epitrachélion (vestment) · grc ἐπιτραχήλιον (vestment) · ro epitrahil (vestment) · fi epitrakiili (vestment) · fr épitrachelion (vestment) · ar بطرشيل (vestment) · pl epitrachelion (vestment) · el επιτραχήλιο (vestment) · uk єпитрахиль (vestment) · ru епитрахи́ль (vestment) · mk епитра́фил (vestment) · ro patrafir (vestment) · be епітрахі́ль (vestment) · es epitrachelion (vestment) · ka ოლარი (vestment) · cs epitrachelion (vestment) · sh epitrahilj (vestment) · de Epitrachelion (vestment)