chalice
[chal-is]
- Ecclesiastical.
- a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.
- the wine contained in it.
- a drinking cup or goblet.
- a cuplike blossom.
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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
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chaliced
- (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
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chalice
- 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
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French, from Latin calix cup; related to Greek kalux calyx
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Word Origin and History for chaliced
chalice
n.
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.
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