chalice

English

Medieval chalice from Norway.

Alternative forms

• calice

Etymology

From 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).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ælɪs

Noun

chalice (plural chalices)

1. A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.

   Synonym: goblet

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1:

     [W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.

2. A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.

Derived terms

• chaliced
• chalice drum
• chalicelike
• enchalice
• mixed chalice
• poisoned chalice

Related terms

• calyx
• kylix

Translations

large drinking cup

• Albanian: këlshejt (sq) m
• Arabic: صُوَاع m (ṣuwāʕ)
• Belarusian: паці́р m (pacír), ку́бак m (kúbak), ча́ша f (čáša), ке́ліх m (kjélix)
• Bulgarian: поти́р m (potír), ку́бок m (kúbok)
• Catalan: calze (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖爵 / 圣爵 (shèngjué)

• Czech: kalich (cs) m
• Danish: kalk (da) c
• Dutch: kelk (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaliko
• Estonian: karikas
• Faroese: kalikur m, steyp n
• Finnish: kalkki (fi), malja (fi), pikari (fi)
• French: calice (fr) m
• Galician: cáliz (gl) m
• Georgian: ბარძიმი (ka) (barʒimi), ფიალა (ka) (piala), თასი (ka) (tasi)
• German: Kelch (de) m
• Greek: κύπελλο (el) n (kýpello), δισκοπότηρο (el) n (diskopótiro)
• Hebrew: גָּבִיעַ (he) m (gavía)
• Hindi: चषक (hi) m (caṣak)
• Hungarian: kehely (hu)
• Icelandic: kaleikur (is) m
• Ido: kupeto (io), kalico (io)
• Indonesian: cawan (id), kaliks, piala (id), tuwung (id)
• Ingrian: kultakuppi
• Italian: calice (it) m
• Japanese: 聖爵 (せいしゃく, seishaku)
• Korean: 성작(聖爵) (seongjak)
• Latin: calix m
• Macedonian: путир m (putir)
• Norman: coupe f
• Norwegian: kalk m
• Ottoman Turkish: آیاغ (ayag)
• Persian: ساتگینی (sâtgini)
• Polabian: beťėr m
• Polish: kielich (pl) m, puchar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cálice (pt) m, cálix (pt) m
• Romani: taxtaj
• Romanian: caliciu (ro) n, potir (ro) n
• Russian: поти́р (ru) m (potír), ку́бок (ru) m (kúbok), ча́ша (ru) f (čáša)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏леж m, пу̀тӣр m

  Roman: kȁlež (sh) m, pùtīr (sh) m

• Slovak: kalich m, pohár m
• Slovene: kelih (sl) m
• Spanish: cáliz (es) m
• Swedish: kalk (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalis
• Turkish: kadeh (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎁𐎓𐎚 (qbʿt)
• Ukrainian: поти́р m (potýr), ку́бок m (kúbok), ча́ша f (čáša), ке́лих m (kélyx)
• Vilamovian: kełich m
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: tsjelk n

Anagrams

• caliche

Middle English

Noun

chalice

1. Alternative form of chalis

Old French

Alternative forms

• calice

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem.

Noun

chalice oblique singular, m (oblique plural chalices, nominative singular chalices, nominative plural chalice)

1. chalice

Descendants

• French: calice
  • → Romanian: caliciu
• Anglo-Norman:
  • → Middle English: chalis (see there for further descendants)
  • → Irish: cailís