calix

See also: Calix and cálix

English

Noun

calix (plural calixes or calices)

1. Dated form of calyx.

References

• “calix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skalik-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel-. Compare Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

calix m (genitive calicis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	calix	calicēs
Genitive	calicis	calicum
Dative	calicī	calicibus
Accusative	calicem	calicēs
Ablative	calice	calicibus
Vocative	calix	calicēs

Descendants

• Italian: calice
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: calze
  • Occitan: calici
• Spanish: cauce
• → Albanian: qelq
• → Old French: chalice (learned) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: caliz, calez (semi-learned)
  • Galician: cáliz
  • Portuguese: cálice
• → Serbo-Croatian: kalež
• → Spanish: cáliz
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kalik (see there for further descendants)

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