different between icons vs epitrachelion

English

Noun

icons

1. plural of icon

Anagrams

• Nicos, cions, coins, scion, sonic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ???????????? (epitrakh?lion), from Ancient Greek ???????????? (epitrakh?lios, “on the neck”) + -??? (-ion, “diminutive suffix forming nouns”). ???????????? (epitrakh?lios) is from ???- (epi-, “on, upon, on top of, covering”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?epi (“on; at; near”)) + ???????? (trákh?los, “neck”) + -??? (-ios) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (“suffix forming adjectives”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?t???kili?n/, /??p?t???kilj?n/, /-?ki?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?t???kili?n/
• Hyphenation: epi?tra?che?li?on

Noun

epitrachelion (plural epitrachelions)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
   • 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller, ?ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, ?ISBN, page 232:

     [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.

Coordinate terms

• alb
• epigonation
• epimanikion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

Translations

References

• “epitrachelion” in the Collins English Dictionary, retrieved 11 February 2017
• “epitrachelion”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “epitrachelion” in Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd rev. and updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, ?ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 11 February 2017.

Further reading

• epitrachelion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia