pallium
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pallium
- /ˈpæ.li.əm/
Rhymes with -æliəm
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.
noun pallia · palliums
- A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
- 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. Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?
- The mantle of a mollusc.
- The cerebral cortex.
- A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
- A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
- The membrane which stretches across the inner walls of the subgenital plate and covers the aedeagus of a grasshopper.
Translations
Talk about this word "pallium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pallium. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pallium. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pallium "pallium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pallium.Cite this
@misc{pallium_2026,
title = {pallium},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pallium},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
