pallium

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.li.əm/

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• Rhymes: -æliəm
• Hyphenation: pal‧li‧um

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.]

• “pallium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pallium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pallium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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From Latin pallium.

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

pallium

1. pallium (vestment)

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pallium m (plural palliums)

1. pallium

• “pallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpal.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpal.li.um]

pallium n (genitive palliī or pallī); second declension

1. cloak
2. coverlet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• palliolātus

• “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

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

1. (Christianity) pallium

• “pallium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin pallium.

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

1. (Christianity) pallium

• “pallium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin pallium or French pallium.

pallium n (plural palliumuri)

1. pallium