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What (who) is zucchetto - definition
SKULLCAP WORN BY ORDAINED CLERGY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AS PART OF ECCLESIASTICAL DRESS
Pileolus; Zuchetto; Pileolo; Subbiretum; Submitrale; Soli dea; Berettino; Solideo
zucchetto
[ts?'k?t??]
¦ noun (plural zucchettos) a Roman Catholic cleric's skullcap: black for a priest, purple for a bishop, red for a cardinal, and white for the Pope.
Origin
C19: from Ital. zucchetta, dimin. of zucca 'gourd, head'.
Zuchetto
·noun A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black.
Wikipedia
Zucchetto
The zucchetto (, also UK: , US: , Italian: [dzukˈketto]; meaning "small gourd", from zucca, "pumpkin"; plural in English: zucchettos) or solideo, officially a pileolus, 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.
It is also called a pilus, pilos, pileus, pileolo, subbiretum, submitrale, soli deo, berrettino, calotte or calotta.
Examples of use of zucchetto
1. Zucchetto Study Director × Member, National Academy of Engineering
2. He later donned the zucchetto, the white skull cap worn by John Paul II and other recent popes.