sticharion

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).

Noun

sticharion (plural sticharions or sticharia)

1. 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

• alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, omophorion, rhason, sakkos, zone

Translations

clerical garb

• Finnish: stikari
• Italian: sticario m
• Macedonian: сти́хар m (stíhar)
• Polish: sticharion m
• Russian: стиха́рь (ru) m (stixárʹ)

Anagrams

• hair tonics

Polish

sticharion

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion), from στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stiˈxa.rjɔn/
• Rhymes: -arjɔn
• Syllabification: sti‧cha‧rion

Noun

sticharion m inan

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) sticharion (liturgical vestment of Eastern Christianity)

Declension

Declension of sticharion

	singular	plural
nominative	sticharion	stichariony
genitive	sticharionu	sticharionów
dative	sticharionowi	sticharionom
accusative	sticharion	stichariony
instrumental	sticharionem	sticharionami
locative	sticharionie	sticharionach
vocative	sticharionie	stichariony

Further reading

• sticharion in PWN's encyclopedia