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calix

calix · m

A cup

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Verus 3 · 14.58/10k
De agri cultura 8 · 5.11/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Epigrammata 17 · 3.02/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 10 · 2.28/10k
De Pudicitia 3 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. călix — Lewis & Short

călix, ĭcis, m.root cal-, cover; cf. caligo; Germ. Kelch.

I A cup, goblet, a drinking-vessel: ku/lic poculi genus, quod nos una littera immutata calicem dicimus, Macr. S. 5, 21; Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 8; Cic. Pis. 27, 67; id. Tusc. 3, 19, 44; Tib. 2, 5, 98; Prop. 2 (3), 33, 40; Hor. S. 2, 4, 79; 2, 6, 68; 2, 8, 35; Plin. 33, prooem. 2, § 5; 36, 40, 66, § 195; Juv. 11, 145.—

B Meton., wine, = vinum, Cat. 27, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 19 al.—

II A cooking-vessel, pot, Cato, R. R. 39, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 7; id. L. L. 5, 27, 36; Ov. F. 5, 509.—

III Of aqueducts, a small pipe, Front. Aquaed. 36.

2. calix — Walde–Hofmann

calix, -icis m. „tiefe Schale, Becher, Kelch“, auch ,Schüssel", „Becher in den Wasserleitungen u. dgl.“ (seit Plaut., vom): u. skalge-ta, scalse-to „ex patera", scalsi-e ,in patera* (z. B. v. Planta 1473; anders, nicht überzeugend, Fay Cl, Rev. 13, 351), ai. kaldsah m. „Topf, Krug, Schale* (*gol-eko-), gr. xükE. -ıog f. , Trinkbecher* (*q.lik-, s. Güntert Abl. 32), xdÀv£, -uxoc f. „Blumenkelch, Blütenknospe* (dazu … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. calix, p. 170]

In the wild

calices Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.8.35
calicem Suetonius, Divus Claudius 32.1
calices Ovid, Fasti 3.534
calice Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.19.p1
calicibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.11
calices Catullus, Carmina lyrics.27.2

6 of 151 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. calix (scan p. 111; entry #1548).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. calix (scan pp. 170-171; entry #515).

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