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sticharions

sticharions is the plural of sticharion.

Meaning of sticharion

Noun

sticharion (plural sticharions or sticharia)

  1. The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.
    • 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

Questions about sticharions

What is sticharions the plural of?
Sticharions is the plural of sticharion.

Words near sticharions in the dictionary

  1. stich
  2. stichaeid
  3. stichaeids
  4. sticharia
  5. sticharion
  6. sticharions
  7. stichasterid
  8. stichasterids
  9. stiched
  10. stichera
  11. sticheraria

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