epitrachelion

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἐπιτραχήλιον (epitrakhḗlion), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios, “on the neck”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns). ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios) is from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon, on top of, covering”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on; at; near”)) + τράχηλος (trákhēlos, “neck”) + -ῐος (-ĭos) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix forming adjectives)). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiliɒn/, /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiljən/, /-ˈkiː-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɛpɪtɹɑˈkiliɔn/ Hyphenation: epi‧tra‧che‧li‧on === Noun === epitrachelion (plural epitrachelions) (Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole. 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, →ISBN, page 232: [A] little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion. ==== Coordinate terms ==== alb epigonation epimanikion maniple omophorion rhason sakkos sticharion zone ==== Translations ==== === References === “epitrachelion”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 11 February 2017. “epitrachelion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “epitrachelion”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 11 February 2017, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN. === Further reading === epitrachelion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia