palliastrum

Latin

Etymology

From palli(um) (“large cloak worn by Greek philosophers”) +‎ -astrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pal.liˈas.trum/, [pälːʲiˈäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal.liˈas.trum/, [pälːiˈäst̪rum]

Noun

palliastrum n (genitive palliastrī); second declension

1. A poor or ragged cloak or mantle.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	palliastrum	palliastra
genitive	palliastrī	palliastrōrum
dative	palliastrō	palliastrīs
accusative	palliastrum	palliastra
ablative	palliastrō	palliastrīs
vocative	palliastrum	palliastra

Related terms

• palliātus
• palliolātim
• palliolātus
• palliolum
• pallium

References

• “palliastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palliastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• palliastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palliastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers