pallium

Etymology

From Latin pallium (“a cloak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæli.əm/

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

1. A woollen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble, conferred on archbishops by the Pope.
   • 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.

2. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
3. (zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
4. (meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
5. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

Anagrams

• Pulliam

Etymology

Related to palla (“cloak, robe”), which is possibly from the root of pellis (“skin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.li.um/, [ˈpal.li.ũ]

Noun

pallium n (genitive palliī); second declension

1. cloak
2. coverlet

References

• 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