The story
- Latin · derived frompallium“cloak”
- Latin · derived frompalliare“to cloak; to conceal”
- Middle French · borrowed frompalliation
- English todaypalliation
Borrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion.
Words from the same roots
Latinpalliare all →
palliament
Latinpallium all →
palliativepallpalliumpalliament
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.