sticharion
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).
Noun
editsticharion (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
editTranslations
editclerical garb
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion), from στῐ́χος (stíkhos).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsticharion m inan
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) sticharion (liturgical vestment of Eastern Christianity)
Declension
editDeclension 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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