chalice

• calice

From Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice, borrowed from Latin calix, calicem (“cup”), from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux). Doublet of calyx and kelch. Compare Sumerian 𒃲(GAL).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ælɪs

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.

• calyx
• kylix

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “chalice”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• caliche

chalice

1. Alternative form of chalis

• calice

Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem.

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

1. chalice

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