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”), from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux). Doublet of calyx and kelch.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/

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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

• chalice drum
• mixed chalice
• poisoned chalice

Related terms

• calyx
• kylix

Translations

large drinking cup

• Albanian: këlshejt (sq) m
• 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
• French: calice (fr) m
• Galician: cáliz (gl) m
• Georgian: ბარძიმი (ka) (barʒimi), ფიალა (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)
• 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

References

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

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