calice
English
Noun
calice (plural calices)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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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
Noun
calice m (plural calices)
Interjection
calice
Further reading
- “calice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin calicem, accusative case form of calix, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix).
Noun
calice m (plural calici)
Etymology 2
From Latin calycem, accusative case form of calyx, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λυξ (kálux).
Noun
calice m (plural calici)
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Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) calice
Middle English
Noun
calice
- Alternative form of chalis
Old French
Noun
calice oblique singular, m (oblique plural calices, nominative singular calices, nominative plural calice)
- (chiefly Christianity) chalice
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