calix

See also: Calix and cálix

English

Noun

calix (plural calixes or calices)

1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix) (cup), from κύω (kúō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.liks/, [ˈka.lɪks]

Noun

calix m (genitive calicis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	calix	calicēs
genitive	calicis	calicum
dative	calicī	calicibus
accusative	calicem	calicēs
ablative	calice	calicibus
vocative	calix	calicēs

Descendants

• Albanian: qelq
• Catalan: calze
• Dutch: kelk
• Old French: calice, chalice

  English: chalice

  French: chalice

  Irish: cailís

• Old High German: kelich

  Czech: kalich

  German: Kelch

  Polish: kielich

  Slovak: kalich

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “calix”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “calix” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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