The zucchetto (/(t)suːˈkɛtoʊ, zuːˈ-/,[1] also UK: /tsʊˈ-/,[2] US: /zʊˈ-/,[3] Italian: [dzukˈketto]; meaning 'small gourd', from zucca 'pumpkin' or more generally 'gourd'; plural in English: zucchettos)[a][4] or solideo,[5] officially a pileolus,[6] is a small, hemispherical, form-fitting ecclesiastical skullcap worn by clerics of various Catholic Churches, the Syriac Orthodox Church, and by senior clergy in Anglicanism.[1][2][3]
It is also called a pilus, pilos, pileus, pileolo, subbiretum, submitrale, soli deo, berrettino, calotte or calotta.[7]
- ^ a b "Zucchetto". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ a b "zucchetto" (US) and "zucchetto". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-03-22.
- ^ a b "zucchetto". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ (in Italian) Dizionario Treccani
- ^ "Definition of SOLIDEO". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Zucchetto". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
- ^ Marshall 2009, pp. 11–13.
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