different between podetium vs scyphus

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek, "foot".

Noun

podetium (plural podetia)

1. (lichenology) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, such as the reindeer moss.

Derived terms

• podetial
• pseudopodetium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (skúphos).

Noun

scyphus (plural scyphi)

1. A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
2. (botany) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
3. (lichenology) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (skúphos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sky.p?us/, [?s?k?p??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??i.fus/, [??i?fus]

Noun

scyphus m (genitive scyph?); second declension

1. cup, goblet
2. communion cup

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: scyphus

References

• scyphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scyphus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scyphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scyphus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scyphus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin