gloria

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1. Liturgy.
   1. Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
   2. Gloria Patri.
   3. the response Gloria tibi, Domine, “Glory be to Thee, O Lord.”
2. (lowercase) a repetition of one of these.
3. (lowercase) a musical setting for one of these.
4. (lowercase) a halo, nimbus, or aureole, or an ornament in imitation of one.
5. (lowercase) a fabric of silk, cotton, nylon, or wool for umbrellas, dresses, etc., often with a filling of cotton warp and yarn of other fiber.
6. a female given name.

Latin.

1. thus passes away the glory of this world.

noun

1. a silk, wool, cotton, or nylon fabric used esp for umbrellas
2. a halo or nimbus, esp as represented in art

noun

1. any of several doxologies beginning with the word Gloria, esp the Greater and the Lesser Doxologies
2. a musical setting of one of these

1. thus passes the glory of the world

early 13c., name of a song of praise, from Medieval Latin gloria in “Gloria Patri,” hymn praising god (and similar hymns), from Latin gloria “glory” (see glory).

c.1600, Latin, literally “thus passes the glory of the world;” perhaps an alteration of a passage in Thomas Á Kempis’ “Imitatio Christi” (1471).

Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

Nothing on earth is permanent, as in His first three novels were bestsellers and now he can’t even find an agent—sic transit gloria mundi. This expression, Latin for “Thus passes the glory of the world,” has been used in English since about 1600, and is familiar enough so that it is sometimes abbreviated to sic transit.

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