scyphus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skúphos).
Noun
scyphus (plural scyphi)
- A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
- (botany) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
- (lichenology) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scyphus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Noun
scyphus m (genitive scyphī); second declension
- cup, goblet
- communion cup
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scyphus | scyphī |
| Genitive | scyphī | scyphōrum |
| Dative | scyphō | scyphīs |
| Accusative | scyphum | scyphōs |
| Ablative | scyphō | scyphīs |
| Vocative | scyphe | scyphī |
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