different between palliative vs pallium

English

Etymology

From Middle French palliatif, from New Latin *palliativus, from Medieval Latin palliare (“to cloak”), from Latin pallium (“a cloak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal??t?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæli.e?t?v/, /?pæli.?t?v/

Adjective

palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most palliative)

1. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
2. (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

Related terms

• palliate
• palliation

Translations

Noun

palliative (plural palliatives)

1. (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

   The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.

See also

• Palliative care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

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

French

Adjective

palliative

1. feminine singular of palliatif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

palliative

1. inflection of palliativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

palliative

1. feminine plural of palliativo

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.