different between eucharist vs ciborium

English

Noun

eucharist (plural eucharists)

1. Alternative form of Eucharist

Anagrams

• thesauric

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cib?rium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kib?rion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??b?????m/

Noun

ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)

1. (architecture) A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
2. (Christianity) A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

Translations

Further reading

• ciborium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Latin

Alternative forms

• cib?ria, cib?reum, cyb?rium, cyb?reum (medieval)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (kib?rion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ki?bo?.ri.um/, [k??bo??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??i?bo.ri.um/, [t??i?b???ium]

Noun

cib?rium n (genitive cib?ri? or cib?r?); 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
3. (Medieval Latin) a vaulted canopy over a Christian altar fixed on four columns

   Synonyms: umbr?culum, tegumen

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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, 1883–1887)
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001) , “ciborium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck