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enkolpion

enkolpion is the alternative form of encolpium.

Meaning of encolpium

Noun

encolpium (plural encolpia or encolpiums)

  1. A reliquary that is worn suspended from the neck like a medallion.
    • Since encolpiums of this type were used for many centuries, many have survived and the literature is fairly extensive.1965, Marvin Chauncey Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2, →ISBN

Forms of enkolpion

pluralenkolpia
pluralenkolpions

Questions about enkolpion

What is enkolpion the alternative form of?
Enkolpion is the alternative form of encolpium.

Words near enkolpion in the dictionary

  1. enkindlers
  2. enkindles
  3. enkindling
  4. enknit
  5. enkolpia
  6. enkolpion
  7. enkolpions
  8. enkraal
  9. enkraaled
  10. enkraaling
  11. enkraals

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