LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

calix

calix m (genitive calicis)
Classical[ˈka.lɪks]Ecclesiastical[ˈkaː.liks]

Meaning

  1. masculinecup, chalice
  2. masculinecooking pot
  3. masculinesmall pipe

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Poculum · Calix · Scyphus · Simpuvium · Cyathus · Crater

1. Poculum and calix denote, as old Latin words, any sort of drinking vessel, merely with reference to its use; poculum, a usual cup for meals; calix, a rarer chalice, or goblet, for feasts; whereas scyphus, cantharus, cymbium, culigna, are foreign words, of Greek origin, denoting particular sorts of cups, with reference to their form. 2. Poculum, etc. all serve as drinking cups; whereas the old Roman word simpuvium, and the modern cyathus, are ladles to fill the pocula from the crater, as with the punch-ladle we fill the punch-glasses from the punch-bowl. (v. 318.)

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativecalixcalicēs
genitivecaliciscalicum
dativecalicīcalicibus
accusativecalicemcalicēs
ablativecalicecalicibus
vocativecalixcalicēs

călix, ĭcis, m. root cal-, cover; cf. caligo; Germ. Kelch.
I. A cup, goblet, a drinking-vessel: κύλιξ poculi genus, quod nos una littera immutata calicem dicimus, Macr. S. 5, 21; Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 8; Cic. Pis. 27, 67; id. Tusc. 3, 19, 44; Tib. 2, 5, 98; Prop. 2 (3), 33, 40; Hor. S. 2, 4, 79; 2, 6, 68; 2, 8, 35; Plin. 33, prooem. 2, § 5; 36, 40, 66, § 195; Juv. 11, 145.—
B. Meton., wine, = vinum, Cat. 27, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 19 al.—
II. A cooking-vessel, pot, Cato, R. R. 39, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 7; id. L. L. 5, 27, 36; Ov. F. 5, 509.—
III. Of aqueducts, a small pipe, Front. Aquaed. 36.

Origins

In view of Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”), perhaps from a Proto-Italic *(s)kalik-, from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“a kind of vessel”), and compared with Ancient Greek σκάλλιον (skállion, “small cup”), σκαλίς (skalís, “shovel”). Pokorny considered a parallel formation in Sanskrit कलश (kaláśa-, “(water-)jar, tub, pot, dish”), for Proto-Indo-European *kel-eḱ-, but De Vaan finds this unlikely. Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “drinking cup”) or an unattested variant thereof, maybe with contamination from κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, hull”), but it is also possible that all were borrowed from related substrate words.

Elsewhere
  • Italiancalice
  • Spanishcauce
  • Portuguesecálicefrom Old Galician-Portuguese caliz
  • Spanishcáliz
  • Asturiancalce
  • Asturiancálcer
  • Asturiancálcere
  • Albanianqelq
  • Old Frenchchalice
  • Galiciancálizfrom Old Galician-Portuguese caliz
Old Occitan
  • Catalancalze
  • Occitancalici

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesCalixCalix κύλιξ). Though not found in Homer or Hesiod, this was the most common kind of drinking cup among the Athenians (Ar. Lys. 841): cf. ἐπὶ τῇ κύλικι…

Quick answers

What does calix mean in Latin?
calix, a noun, means “cup, chalice; cooking pot; small pipe”.
What is the genitive of calix?
The genitive singular is calicis. calix is masculine, third declension.
How do you pronounce calix?
In classical Latin, [ˈka.lɪks]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈkaː.liks].