pallium
/ˈpæ.li.əm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
noun
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.
noun
The cerebral cortex.
noun
A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
noun
The membrane which stretches across the inner walls of the subgenital plate and covers the aedeagus of a grasshopper.
Example Sentences
- "Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?"
- "Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pallium