palliastrum

== Latin == === Etymology === From palli(um) (“large cloak worn by Greek philosophers”) + -astrum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pal.liˈas.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pal.liˈas.trum] === Noun === palliastrum n (genitive palliastrī); second declension A poor or ragged cloak or mantle. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Related terms ==== === References === “palliastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "palliastrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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