calix

See also: Calix and cálix

English

Noun

calix (plural calixes or calices)

1. Dated spelling of calyx.

Derived terms

• glycocalix

References

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

Latin

Etymology

In view of Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”), perhaps from a Proto-Italic *(s)kalik-, from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“a kind of vessel”), and compared with Ancient Greek σκάλλιον (skállion, “small cup”), σκαλίς (skalís, “shovel”). Pokorny considered a parallel formation in Sanskrit कलश (kaláśa-, “(water-)jar, tub, pot, dish”), for Proto-Indo-European *kel-eḱ-, but De Vaan finds this unlikely. Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “drinking cup”) or an unattested variant thereof, maybe with contamination from κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, hull”), but it is also possible that all were borrowed from related substrate words.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.lɪks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.liks]
• Homophone: calyx (pronunciations of ⟨y⟩ as /i/)

Noun

calix m (genitive calicis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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)

Further reading

• “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, 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