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pallium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpæ.li.əm/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
  2. 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.
    • 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. 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 23:
    • Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 339:
    • Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped? 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:
  3. The mantle of a mollusc.
  4. The cerebral cortex.
  5. A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
  6. (obsolete) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
  7. The membrane which stretches across the inner walls of the subgenital plate and covers the aedeagus of a grasshopper.

Forms

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pallia Number=Plur lexicographic
palliums Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

mesopallium · subpallium · neopallium · nidopallium · hyperpallium · archipallium · entopallium · pallial · paleopallium

Relateds

palliate · palliative · palliation

Translations (19)

fi pilvipeite (sheet of cloud) · fi vaippa (mantle of mollusk) · pl paliusz (cloak) · ko 외투막 (mantle of mollusk) · pl zachmurzenie (sheet of cloud) · ko 망토 (cloak) · ko 팔리움 (liturgical vestment) · uk палліум (liturgical vestment) · id palium (liturgical vestment) · pl paliusz (liturgical vestment) · ko 팔리움 (sheet of cloud) · uk паллій (liturgical vestment) · bg мантия (mantle of mollusk) · bg мантия (cloak) · fi pallium (cloak) · enm pallioun (liturgical vestment) · pl płaszcz (mantle of mollusk) · uk мантія (cloak) · fi pallium (liturgical vestment)