different between sakkos vs epimanikion

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

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Anagrams

• Kosaks

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ??????????? (epimaníkion), from ??? (epí, “upon”) + ???????? (maníkion, “sleeve”).

Noun

epimanikion (plural epimanikia)

1. A cuff worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other Catholic churches.

Coordinate terms

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