different between nimbostratus vs pallium

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

nimbostratus (plural nimbostrati)

1. (meteorology) According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nimbo?str?tus/, [?nimbo??s?t?r?t?us?]
• Rhymes: -?tus
• Syllabification: nim?bo?stra?tus

Noun

nimbostratus

1. Synonym of laaja sadepilvi (“nimbostratus”)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French nimbo-stratus

Noun

nimbostratus m (uncountable)

1. nimbostratus

Declension

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.