calix

See also: Calix and cálix

Englisch

Nomen

calix (plural calixes or calices)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Dated form of calyx.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “calix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “cup”), from κύω (kúō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.liks/, [ˈkälʲɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.liks/, [ˈkäːliks]

Nomen

1. cup, chalice
2. cooking pot
3. small pipe

Descendants

• Albanian: qelq
• Catalan: calze
• Dutch: kelk
• Old French: calice, chalice
  • English: chalice
  • French: calice
  • Irish: cailís
• Old High German: kelich
  • Czech: kalich
  • German: Kelch
  • Polish: kielich
    • Belarusian: ке́ліх (kjélix)
    • Ukrainian: ке́лих, ке́лех (kélyx, kélex)
  • Slovak: kalich

• Interlingua: calice
• Italian: calice
• Occitan: calici
• Portuguese: cálice
• Romanian: caliciu
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • Croatian: kalež
• Spanish: calce, cáliz, cauce

References

• “calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• calix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “calix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calix”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin