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omophorion

omophorion noun: 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.

Noun

omophorion (plural omophorions or omophoria)

  1. 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.
    • a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, page 232.
    • The bishop wears an omophorion, whose shape and manner of wearing are closer to the original pallium than either the stole or the epitrachelion.1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition

Forms of omophorion

pluralomophorions
pluralomophoria

Origin of omophorion

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

Questions about omophorion

What does omophorion mean?
Omophorion 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.
What part of speech is omophorion?
Omophorion is a noun.
What is the plural of omophorion?
The plural of omophorion is omophorions.

Words near omophorion in the dictionary

  1. omophagist
  2. omophagists
  3. omophagous
  4. omophagy
  5. omophoria
  6. omophorion
  7. omophorions
  8. omoplate
  9. omoplates
  10. omoplatoscopy
  11. omorashi

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