pallium
English
/ˈpalɪəm/, /ˈpæliəm/
noun
Definitions
- (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
- (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.
- (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
- (obsolete) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pallium (a cloak, cloak, coverlet, covering, large cloak worn by Greek philosophers).
Origin
Latin
pallium
Gloss
a cloak, cloak, coverlet, covering, large cloak worn by Greek philosophers
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- archipallium English
- caudomesopallium English
- entopallium English
- hyperpallium English
- mesopallium English
- neopallium English
- nidopallium English
- paleopallium English
- subpallium English
- palliare Latin
- palliastrum Latin
- palliolum Latin
- pallium Latin
- palio Italian
- pallio Italian
- palio Spanish, Castilian
- *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- pálio Portuguese
- paltok Middle English
- paile Old French
- caille Old Irish
- caillech Old Irish