pallium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
The mantle of a mollusc.
The cerebral cortex.
A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

/ˈpæ.li.əm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Pvanp7-pallium.wav

pallium pallia palliums

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

palliate palliation palliative

archipallium entopallium hyperpallium mesopallium neopallium nidopallium paleopallium pallial subpallium

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