Etymology

omophorion

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Today it means: A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium. Full definition →

Medieval Greek ὠμοφόριον ← Ancient Greek ὦμος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὦμος“shoulder”
  2. Medieval Greek · derived fromὠμοφόριον
  3. English todayomophorion

From Medieval Greek ὠμοφόριον (ōmophórion), from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”) + φέρω (phérō, “carry”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekὦμος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.