different between calice vs calico

English

Noun

calice (plural calices)

1. Obsolete form of chalice.

Anagrams

• acicle, celiac

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lis/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

calice m (plural calices)

1. chalice

Interjection

calice

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

Further reading

• “calice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.li.t??e/
• Rhymes: -alit?e
• Hyphenation: cà?li?ce

Etymology 1

From Latin calicem, accusative case form of calix, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúlix).

Noun

calice m (plural calici)

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

Etymology 2

From Latin calycem, accusative case form of calyx, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kálux).

Noun

calice m (plural calici)

1. (botany, anatomy) calyx

Anagrams

• cecali, cicale, leccai, leccia

Latin

Noun

calice

1. ablative singular of calix

Middle English

Noun

calice

1. Alternative form of chalis

Old French

Noun

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

1. (chiefly Christianity) chalice

English

Alternative forms

• callico

Etymology

From Calicut, in India, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam ?????????? (k??ikk???, “Kozhikode”), from ???? (k??i, “palace”) + ?????? (kk???, “fortified palace”), with ‘y’ replaced by interchangeable ‘zh’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæl?k??/

Noun

calico (countable and uncountable, plural calicos or calicoes)

1. (textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
2. (countable, zoology) Ellipsis of calico cat; a cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.
3. (uncountable) The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.

Derived terms

• calicoed

Translations

Adjective

calico

1. Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.

   Synonym: tortoiseshell

Translations

Further reading

• calico (textile) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calico cat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• accoil, acocil, calcio-