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sakkos

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

Translations

Anagrams

  • Kosaks

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sticharion

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (stikhárion).

Noun

sticharion (plural sticharions or sticharia)

  1. The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in catholic churches.

Coordinate terms

  • alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, omophorion, rhason, sakkos, zone

Translations

Anagrams

  • hair tonics

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  • what does sticharion mean
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