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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, hull”), perhaps confused for κύλιξ (kúlix).

Pronunciation

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

• Albanian: qelq
• Catalan: calze
• → Old French: chalice, calice (learned)
  • French: calice
  • Anglo-Norman: [Term?]
    • → Middle English: chalis, chales, schalis, chalice, chaleys, chalys, calice, calis, caliz, challes, chayles, chalyse
      • English: chalice
      • Scots: chalice
    • → Irish: cailís
• Interlingua: calice
• Italian: calice
• Occitan: calici
• Old Portuguese: caliz, calez
  • Galician: cáliz
  • Portuguese: cálice
• Romanian: caliciu
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • Croatian: kalež
• Spanish: calce, cáliz, cauce
• 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