cyathus
noun
cyathi
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pluralof cyathus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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How completely would the hookah and the narghileh have harmonized with the crater, cyathi, and tripods of the triclinium in that portraiture of the "Decadence of Rome" which hangs in the Luxembourg Gallery!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
We drank half-a-dozen cyathi a-piece of ancient Alban to Pholoë's health; and after bathing, and playing an hour at ball, we mounted our essedum again, and proceeded up the mount to the temple.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George
And in the same manner, after supper there was given to each guest not more than two cyathi of wine, and this too was brought to each person as he made a sign for it.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
We drank half a dozen cyathi apiece of ancient Alban to Pholoe's health, and after bathing and playing an hour at ball, we mounted our essedum again, and proceeded up the mount to the temple.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
