Noun: pallium
| Singular | pallium |
| Plural | pallia; palliums |
Sample Sentences
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Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped? [1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:]
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Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials. [2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 339:]
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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. [2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like pallium
septum,
sacrum,
scutum,
signum,
philtrum,
effluvium,
preferendum,
tricennium,
fenestrum,
prooemium,
pseudoperidium,
vomitorium,
gubernium,
protocerebrum,
addendum,
pallium,
pabulum,
refugium,
decorum,
fumigatorium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall. See: Latin Nouns '
pallium'.