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English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English pix, pixe (“vessel for holding a host, pyx; hip bone socket, pyxis”) [and other forms], from Late Latin pyxis (“vessel for holding a host”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass”), from Koine Greek ????? (puxís), Ancient Greek ?????? (puxís, “box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder”), from ?????? (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”) + -?? (-is, suffix forming feminine nouns).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?ks/
• Homophones: picks, pics, pix
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

pyx (plural pyxes)

1. (Christianity, also figuratively) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.

   Synonym: (rare) pyxis
2. (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.

   Synonym: pyxis
3. (chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
4. (nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.

Alternative forms

• pix (obsolete, Late Middle English–19th c.)

Translations

Verb

pyx (third-person singular simple present pyxes, present participle pyxing, simple past and past participle pyxed) (transitive)

1. (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
2. (figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
3. (chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.

Alternative forms

• pix (obsolete)

Derived terms

• pyxed (adjective) (obsolete, rare)
• pyxing (noun)

Notes

References

Further reading

• pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trial of the Pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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