cyathus

American  

[sahy-uh-thuhs] / ˈsaɪ ə θəs /

noun

plural

cyathi

1. kyathos.

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Etymology

Origin of cyathus

< Latin < Greek kyáthos kyathos

Example Sentences

Cyathiformis is from cyathus, a drinking cup; formis, form or shape.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

There is something odd, mystical, and shall we say affected, about both the Brownings, which mars their general effect—the wine is good, but the shape of the cyathus is deliberately queer.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

After this he pours in a cyathus and a half of beer.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Cheer up, my lass, and sing us a stave or two, as we go; for I’ll pledge a cyathus of unmixed, that, if you choose, you can warble notes as sweet as the manna gum.”

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry

"Eversor, id est cyathus," says his Riv'rence, "nam apud nos tumbleri seu eversores, dicti sunt ab evertendo ceremoniam inter amicos; non, ut Temperantiæ Societatis frigidis fautoribus placet, ab evertendis ipsis potatoribus."

From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter