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pallium.

A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpæ.li.əm/
  1. A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

    historical
  2. 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.

  3. The mantle of a mollusc.

  4. The cerebral cortex.

  5. A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.

  6. A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.

    obsolete
  7. The membrane which stretches across the inner walls of the subgenital plate and covers the aedeagus of a grasshopper.

Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.