calice

See also: cálice, câlice, and câlicé

English

Noun

calice (plural calices)

1. Obsolete form of chalice.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 calice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• acicle, celiac

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix). Compare also the inherited Old French chalice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lis/

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• Rhymes: -is

Noun

calice m (plural calices)

1. chalice

Derived terms

• boire le calice jusqu'à la lie

Descendants

• → Romanian: caliciu

Interjection

calice

1. (Quebec, slang, euphemistic) Alternative form of câlisse

Further reading

• “calice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -alitʃe
• Hyphenation: cà‧li‧ce

Etymology 1

From Latin calicem, from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix).

Noun

calice m (plural calici)

1. cup or goblet (for drinking); large glass (of wine)
2. chalice
3. flute

Etymology 2

From Latin calycem, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λυξ (kálux).

Noun

calice m (plural calici)

1. (botany, anatomy) calyx

Anagrams

• cecali, cicale, leccai, leccia

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Latin

Noun

calice

1. ablative singular of calix

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Middle English

Noun

calice

1. Alternative form of chalis

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Old French

Noun

calice m (oblique plural calices, nominative singular calices, nominative plural calice)

1. (chiefly Christianity) chalice (alternative form of chalice)