chalice

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/    美 /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/

英文释义

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

词形变化

chalices plural calice alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
chaliced chalice drum chalicelike enchalice mixed chalice poisoned chalice
相关词
calyx kylix

词源

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).
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