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sakkoi

sakkoi is the plural of sakkos.

Meaning of sakkos

Noun

sakkos (plural sakkoses or sakkoi)

  1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
    • When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 515

Questions about sakkoi

What is sakkoi the plural of?
Sakkoi is the plural of sakkos.

Words near sakkoi in the dictionary

  1. sakiyehs
  2. Sakizaya
  3. Sakkara
  4. Sakkaras
  5. sakkie-sakkie
  6. sakkoi
  7. sakkos
  8. sakkoses
  9. Saklofske
  10. Sakmarian
  11. Sako

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