different between chasuble vs sakkos

English

Etymology

From Middle English chesible, from Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??æzj?b?l/

Noun

chasuble (plural chasubles)

1. (Christianity) The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
   • 1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook):

     Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.

Translations

Anagrams

• Baluches, bauchles

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.zybl/

Noun

chasuble f (plural chasubles)

1. chasuble

Derived terms

• chasublerie
• chasublier

References

• “chasuble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ?????? (sákkos). Doublet of sack.

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).
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 515:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, omophorion, rhason, sticharion, zone

Translations

Anagrams

• Kosaks