cyborium

English

Noun

cyborium (plural cyboriums or cyboria)

1. Obsolete spelling of ciborium
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Casentino History Anthropology Environment, Kenneth Caselli, page 64:

     There is in the main church of Bibbiena, a small and rather overlooked piece of sculpture in the local sandstone, a cyborium, (holder for the host), which vividly synthesises such a taste and spirit.

   • 1856, John MILEY (D.D.), The Temporal Sovereignty of the Popes ... Discussed Historically, page 261:

     To St. Andrew's, which is hard-by, he presented a cyborium, weight 135lbs. of the purest silver. The shrine where rests the body of the Apostle of the Gentiles he had inlaid with lamina of silver to the weight of 30lbs.

   • 1893, Architectural Record, page 199:

     At the end was the Emperor's throne, covered by a cyborium, where he received  […]

Polish

Alternative forms

• cyboryjum (Middle Polish)
• cyboryum (Pre-reform orthography (1816))
• cyborjum (Pre-reform orthography (1936))

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cibōrium, from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion). First attested in 1547.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɨˈbɔ.rjum/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrjum
• Syllabification: cy‧bo‧rium

Noun

cyborium n

1. (architecture) ciborium (a fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns)
2. (Christianity) ciborium (a covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist)

Declension

Declension of cyborium

	singular	plural
nominative	cyborium	cyboria
genitive	cyborium	cyboriów
dative	cyborium	cyboriom
accusative	cyborium	cyboria
instrumental	cyborium	cyboriami
locative	cyborium	cyboriach
vocative	cyborium	cyboria

Further reading

• cyborium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cyborium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “CYBORIUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2022 January 24
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “cyboryum”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[1]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “cyborjum”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[2]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “cyborjum”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 356
• cyborium in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego