English

Noun

parelius ‎(plural parelii)

1. (obsolete) A parhelion. Some historical works expressed the meaning of this term as a false or mock sun.
   • 1873, John Hill Burton, The history of Scotland, Volume 5, p. 169:

     " […] even then he began, and with that noble personage, to clasp some one gratioso in the embraces of his great love, who was, unto him as a parelius,—that is, when the sun finds a cloud so fit to be illustrated by his beams that it looks almost like another sun."

Related terms

• parhelion
• parelion