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sudarium

Syllables: su·dar·i·umUK/ˌs(j)uːˈdɛə̯ɹ.iː.əm/US/ˌs(j)uˈdeɹ.i.əm/

sudarium noun: a napkin or handkerchief.

Noun

sudarium (plural sudaria or sudariums)

  1. (archaic, historical) A napkin or handkerchief.
    • A woman called Veronica[…]brought foorth a Sudarium[…]to wipe his face.1609, William Biddulph, Trauels Certaine Englishmen, quoted in OED
    • […]Watt, faithful to his rule, took no more notice of this aggression than if it had been an accident. This he found was the wisest attitude, to staunch, if necessary, inconspicuously, with the little red sudarium that he always carried in his pocket, the flow of blood, to pick up what had fallen...1953, Samuel Beckett, chapter I, in Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC, page 32
    Synonyms:
    sudary

sudarium meaning in Tamil

sudarium in Tamil

மாயத்திருவோவியம், மாயமான இயேசுநாதரின் சித்திரம், திருத்தலைக்குட்டை, இயேசுநாதர் தலைசூழ் கைக்குட்டை, மாயப் பொறிப்புக்குட்டை

Examples of sudarium in a sentence

  • At first, however, the existence of the Veronica was recorded not as an image but as a textile, a sudarium.2012, David Engel, Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History:
  • Most interestingly, scientific analysis has shown that the stains of the sudarium match those on the head portion of the Shroud, a notion first suggested by Monsignor Ricci in 1965.2016, J. Douglas Kenyon, Missing Connections: Challenging the Consensus, page 154:

Synonyms of sudarium

Forms of sudarium

pluralsudaria
pluralsudariums

Origin of sudarium

Learned borrowing from Latin sūdārium. First attested in 1609. Doublet of sudary.

Words that rhyme with sudarium

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Questions about sudarium

What does sudarium mean?
Sudarium means a napkin or handkerchief.
What is sudarium in Tamil?
Sudarium in Tamil is மாயத்திருவோவியம், மாயமான இயேசுநாதரின் சித்திரம், திருத்தலைக்குட்டை. See Sudarium meaning in Tamil.
How do you use sudarium in a sentence?
At first, however, the existence of the Veronica was recorded not as an image but as a textile, a sudarium.
What part of speech is sudarium?
Sudarium is a noun.
How do you pronounce sudarium?
Sudarium is pronounced /ˌs(j)uːˈdɛə̯ɹ.iː.əm/ (UK).
What is the plural of sudarium?
The plural of sudarium is sudaria.

Words near sudarium in the dictionary

  1. sudanophilic
  2. Sudanos
  3. Sudans
  4. sudaria
  5. sudaries
  6. sudarium
  7. sudariums
  8. sudary
  9. sudate
  10. sudated
  11. sudates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sudarium (page history and authors); sudarium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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