pallium

The story

1. Latin · borrowed frompallium“a cloak”
2. English todaypallium

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

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from 10th c. A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
• from 11th c. 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 19th c. The mantle of a mollusc.
• from 19th c. The cerebral cortex.
• 19th c. A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.