different between mantle vs pallium

English

Etymology

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil, from Proto-Germanic *mantilaz (“mantle”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, from Latin mant?llum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.t?l/
• Rhymes: -ænt?l
• Homophone: mantel

Noun

mantle (plural mantles)

1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) [from 9th c.]
2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

   At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

   The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
4. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
   • 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71:

     He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
5. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. A penstock for a water wheel.
10. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
11. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
12. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
13. (heraldry) A mantling.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

1. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I

     As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason.

   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I

     I left them I' th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to th' chins.

2. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

References

Further reading

• Gas mantle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mantle (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mantle (mollusc) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lament., lament, manlet, mantel, mental

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæli?m/

Noun

pallium (plural pallia or palliums)

1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. [from 10th c.]
2. (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. [from 11th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 339:

     Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.

   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 23:

     Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.

3. (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
5. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus. [19th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• pallium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pallium in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pallium at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pulliam

Latin

Etymology

Related to palla (“cloak, robe”), but further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pal.li.um/, [?päl??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pal.li.um/, [?p?l?ium]

Noun

pallium n (genitive palli? or pall?); second declension

1. cloak
2. coverlet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Related terms

• palliol?tus

Descendants

• ? Albanian: pajë
• ? English: pallium
• ? Italian: pallio, palio
• ? Old English: pæl
  • Middle English: pal
    • English: pall
• Old French: paile
  • French: poêle
• ? Old Irish: caille
  • Middle Irish: caille
    • Irish: caille
• ? Portuguese: pálio
• ? Spanish: palio

Further reading

• pallium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pallium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pallium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pallium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pallium n (definite singular iet, indefinite plural ier, definite plural ia or iene)

1. (Christianity) pallium

References

• “pallium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium.

Noun

pallium n (definite singular palliet, indefinite plural pallium, definite plural pallia)

1. (Christianity) pallium

References

• “pallium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.