different between wafer vs ciborium

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German w?fel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?we?f?/
• Rhymes: -e?f?(?)

Noun

wafer (plural wafers)

1. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
2. (Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
3. A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 202:

     The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.

4. (electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

Synonyms

• (religion): host

Derived terms

• waferless
• waferlike
• wafery

Translations

Verb

wafer (third-person singular simple present wafers, present participle wafering, simple past and past participle wafered)

1. (transitive) To seal or fasten with a wafer.
   • 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March:

     [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.

   • 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, p. 81:

     [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (plural wafers)

1. wafer (electronic component)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (invariable)

1. wafer (biscuit and electronic component)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (plural wafers)

1. wafer (type of biscuit)
2. (electronics) wafer (disk on which an electronic circuit is produced)

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