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sakkos

sakkos noun: a richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).

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

Forms of sakkos

pluralsakkoses
pluralsakkoi
alternative formsaccos

Origin of sakkos

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.

Questions about sakkos

What does sakkos mean?
Sakkos means a richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
What part of speech is sakkos?
Sakkos is a noun.
What is the plural of sakkos?
The plural of sakkos is sakkoses.

Words near sakkos in the dictionary

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

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