sticharion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).
Noun edit
sticharion (plural sticharions or sticharia)
- The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.
- 1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, 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.
- 1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition:
- The sticharion, which is held by the zone, or girdle, corresponds to the alb.
Coordinate terms edit
Translations edit
clerical garb
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion), from στῐ́χος (stíkhos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sticharion m inan
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) sticharion (liturgical vestment of Eastern Christianity)
Declension edit
Declension of sticharion
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sticharion | stichariony |
genitive | sticharionu | sticharionów |
dative | sticharionowi | sticharionom |
accusative | sticharion | stichariony |
instrumental | sticharionem | sticharionami |
locative | sticharionie | sticharionach |
vocative | sticharionie | stichariony |
Further reading edit
- sticharion in PWN's encyclopedia
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