chalice

FREQ #21195

n. 酒杯, 圣餐杯

发音

UK /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/
US /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/

词形变化

chalices 复数 chalices

别名

challis calice

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    圣爵

  2. 2.

    A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

goblet

上位词 1

cup

相关短语

chalice drum chalice drums poisoned chalice 毒药圣杯 mixed chalice

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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