ciborium
English
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Etymology
From Medieval Latin cibōrium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)
- A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
- A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
- 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
- Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.
Translations
A fixed vaulted canopy
A covered receptacle
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Further reading
References
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kiˈboː.ri.um/, [kɪˈboːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈbo.ri.um/, [t͡ʃiˈbɔːrium]
Noun
cibōrium n (genitive cibōriī or cibōrī); second declension
- the seedvessel of sacred lotus which served as a drinking vessel with the Egyptians
- by extension, any drinking vessel approximating the shape of the seedcase of the sacred lotus
- 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes II.7.21–23:
- Oblivioso levia Massico
ciboria exple, funde capacibus
unguenta de conchis!- Fill the light goblets with wine from the Massicus that wreaks forgetfulness, slop salves from big shells!
- Oblivioso levia Massico
- (Medieval Latin) a vaulted canopy over a Christian altar fixed on four columns
- Synonyms: umbrāculum, tegumen
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cibōrium | cibōria |
Genitive | cibōriī cibōrī1 |
cibōriōrum |
Dative | cibōriō | cibōriīs |
Accusative | cibōrium | cibōria |
Ablative | cibōriō | cibōriīs |
Vocative | cibōrium | cibōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “ciborium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ciborium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ciborium 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)
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “ciborium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001
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