scyphus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skúphos).

Noun

scyphus (plural scyphi)

1. A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
2. (botany) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
3. (lichenology) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scyphus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skúphos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.pʰus/, [ˈs̠kʏpʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.fus/, [ˈʃiːfus]

Noun

scyphus m (genitive scyphī); second declension

1. cup, goblet
2. communion cup

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scyphus	scyphī
Genitive	scyphī	scyphōrum
Dative	scyphō	scyphīs
Accusative	scyphum	scyphōs
Ablative	scyphō	scyphīs
Vocative	scyphe	scyphī

Descendants

• → Catalan: escif (learned)
• Sicilian: scifu
• → English: scyphus

References

• “scyphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scyphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scyphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scyphus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scyphus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin