chalice
A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal…A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
» Mine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.
Мои глаза смотрят на твой металлический кубок.
Meaning
2 sensesA large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
Kelch
поти́рpotír, ку́бокkúbok, ча́шаčáša
поти́рpotýr, ку́бокkúbok, ча́шаčáša
A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.
- a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup
Examples
3 sentencesMine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.
ruМои глаза смотрят на твой металлический кубок.
The lilies open their little chalices in the sun.
ruЛилии открывают свои чашечки на солнце.
By the chalice of Jesus, Reverend hermit, what is this infernal liquor?
ruКлянусь Святым Граалем, преподобный отшельник, но что эта за адское пойло?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form ofFrom Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice, borrowed from Latin calix, calicem (“cup”), of uncertain etymology. In view of Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”), perhaps from a Proto-Italic *(s)kalik-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel-. Pokorny considered a parallel formation in Sanskrit कलश (kaláśa-, “(water-)jar, tub, pot, dish”), for Proto-Indo-European *kel-eḱ-, but De Vaan finds this unlikely. Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix) or an unattested variant thereof, maybe with contamination from κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, calyx”), but it is also possible that all were borrowed from related substrate words. Possible doublet of calyx and kelch. Compare Sumerian 𒃲(GAL).
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