calix
English
Noun
calix (plural calixes or calices)
- Dated form of calyx.
Derived terms
References
- “calix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Etymology
In view of Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”), perhaps from a Proto-Italic *(s)kalik-,[1] from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“a kind of vessel”), and compared with Ancient Greek σκάλλιον (skállion, “small cup”), σκαλίς (skalís, “shovel”).[1] Pokorny considered a parallel formation in Sanskrit कलश (kaláśa-, “(water-)jar, tub, pot, dish”), for Proto-Indo-European *kel-eḱ-,[2] but De Vaan finds this unlikely. Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “drinking cup”) or an unattested variant thereof, maybe with contamination from κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, hull”), but it is also possible that all were borrowed from related substrate words.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.lɪks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.liks]
- Homophone: calyx (pronunciations of ⟨y⟩ as /i/)
Noun
calix m (genitive calicis); third declension
- cup, chalice
- cooking pot
- small pipe
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | calix | calicēs |
| genitive | calicis | calicum |
| dative | calicī | calicibus |
| accusative | calicem | calicēs |
| ablative | calice | calicibus |
| vocative | calix | calicēs |
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “calix, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 83–84
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “7. kel- (kol-, kol-)”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 550–551
Further reading
- “calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "calix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “calix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “calix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “calix”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin