chalice

[chal-is]

noun

Ecclesiastical.

a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.
the wine contained in it.

a drinking cup or goblet.

a cuplike blossom.

Origin of chalice

before 900; Middle English < Middle French < Latin calici- (stem of calix) cup; replacing Middle English caliz, calc, Old English calic < Latin calici-, as above

Related formschal·iced

[chal-ist] /ˈtʃæl ɪst/, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for chaliced

chaliced

adjective

(of plants) having cup-shaped flowers

chalice

noun

poetic a drinking cup; goblet

Christianity a gold or silver cup containing the wine at Mass

the calyx of a flower, esp a cup-shaped calyx

Word Origin for chalice

C13: from Old French, from Latin calix cup; related to Greek kalux calyx

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Word Origin and History for chaliced

chalice

early 14c., from Anglo-French chalice, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice (Modern French calice), from Latin calicem (nominative calix) "cup," cognate with Greek kylix "cup, drinking cup, cup of a flower," from PIE root *kal- "cup." Ousted Old English cognate cælic, an ecclesiastical borrowing of the Latin word, and earlier Middle English caliz, from Old North French.