Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. · A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. · A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. · A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium ? Latin pallium Old French pailebor. Old English pæl Middle English pal English pall From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
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