pallium

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæliəm/

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
2. (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. [from 11th c.]
   • 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.

   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 23:

     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.

3. (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
5. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]

• palliation
• palliate
• palliative

• pallium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pallium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• pallium at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Pulliam

Related to palla (“cloak, robe”), but further etymology is unknown.[1]

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

pallium n (genitive palliī or pallī); second declension

1. cloak
2. coverlet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• palliolātus

• → Albanian: pajë
• → English: pallium
• → Italian: pallio, palio
• → Old Irish: caille
• → Portuguese: pálio
• → Spanish: palio

• 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