calice

calice (plural calices)

1. Obsolete form of chalice.

• “calice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• acicle, celiac

Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix). Compare also the inherited Old French chalice.

• IPA^(key): /ka.lis/

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• Rhymes: -is

calice m (plural calices)

1. chalice

• boire le calice jusqu’à la lie

• → Romanian: caliciu

calice

1. (Quebec, slang, euphemistic) Alternative form of câlisse

• “calice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -alitʃe
• Hyphenation: cà‧li‧ce

From Latin calicem, from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix).

calice m (plural calici)

1. cup or goblet (for drinking); large glass (of wine)
2. chalice
3. flute

From Latin calycem, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λυξ (kálux).

calice m (plural calici)

1. (botany, anatomy) calyx

• cecali, cicale, leccai, leccia

calice

1. ablative singular of calix

calice

1. Alternative form of chalis

calice oblique singular, m (oblique plural calices, nominative singular calices, nominative plural calice)

1. (chiefly Christianity) chalice (alternative form of chalice)