ciborium

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English

A ciborium (canopy)
A ciborium (receptacle)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cibōrium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)

  2. (architecture) A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
  4. (Christianity) A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
    • 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
      Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “‖ciborium” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary

Further reading

French

Noun

ciborium m (plural ciboriums)

  1. ciborium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion).

Pronunciation

Noun

cibōrium n (genitive cibōriī or cibōrī); second declension

  1. the seedvessel of sacred lotus which served as a drinking vessel with the Egyptians
  2. by extension, any drinking vessel approximating the shape of the seedcase of the sacred lotus
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes II.7.21–23:
      Oblivioso levia Massico
      ciboria exple, funde capacibus
      unguenta de conchis!
      Fill the light goblets with wine from the Massicus that wreaks forgetfulness, slop salves from big shells!
  3. (Medieval Latin) a vaulted canopy over a Christian altar fixed on four columns
    Synonyms: umbrāculum, tegumen

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cibōrium cibōria
genitive cibōriī
cibōrī1 		cibōriōrum
dative cibōriō cibōriīs
accusative cibōrium cibōria
ablative cibōriō cibōriīs
vocative cibōrium cibōria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “ciborium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ciborium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ciborium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “ciborium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001
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