different between caliche vs calice

English

Etymology

From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??lit?i/

Noun

caliche (countable and uncountable, plural caliches)

1. (mineralogy) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
2. A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
   • 1929, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, page 44,

     According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard caliche or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the caliche escarpment.

   • 1985, Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country, page 17,

     Having a layer of caliche at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.

   • 2011, Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey, Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan (editors), Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research, page 186,

     Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).

Anagrams

• chalice

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• calighe
• calixi (campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (kúlix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalike/

Noun

caliche m (plural caliches)

1. cup, wine glass
2. chalice

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin calx (“pebble”).

Noun

caliche m (plural caliches)

1. saltpeter
2. salitre

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