cyborium
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English
Noun
cyborium (plural cyboriums or cyboria)
- Obsolete spelling of ciborium.
- (Can we date this quote?), The Casentino History Anthropology Environment, Kenneth Caselli, page 64:
- There is in the main church of Bibbiena, a small and rather overlooked piece of sculpture in the local sandstone, a cyborium, (holder for the host), which vividly synthesises such a taste and spirit.
- 1856, John MILEY (D.D.), The Temporal Sovereignty of the Popes ... Discussed Historically, page 261:
- To St. Andrew's, which is hard-by, he presented a cyborium, weight 135lbs. of the purest silver. The shrine where rests the body of the Apostle of the Gentiles he had inlaid with lamina of silver to the weight of 30lbs.
- 1893, Architectural Record, page 199:
- At the end was the Emperor's throne, covered by a cyborium, where he received […]
Polish
Alternative forms
- cyboryjum (Middle Polish)
- cyboryum (pre-reform orthography (1816))
- cyborjum (pre-reform orthography (1936))
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cibōrium, from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion).[1][2] First attested in 1547.[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
cyborium n
- (architecture) ciborium (a fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns)
- (Christianity) ciborium (a covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist)
Declension
Declension of cyborium
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “cyborium”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cyborium”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “cyboryjum”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Further reading
- cyborium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cyborium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “CYBORIUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2022 January 24
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “cyboryum”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “cyborjum”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “cyborjum”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 356
- cyborium in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego