Noun: cáliz
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cáliz |
| Plural m | cálices |
Sample Sentences
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hun calez de prata d'un marco et meo, que seia laurado et dourado arredor nas orelas (a silver chalice of a mark and a half, sculpted and gilded around on the rim) [1307, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 440:]
Nouns inflected like cáliz
chafariz,
panchoz,
brandariz,
éndez,
agraz,
arroz,
arcaz,
cáliz,
lapuz,
baluz,
buraz,
cariz,
nariz,
tapiz,
xiz,
solaz,
arcabuz,
arroaz,
xuíz,
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese calez, caliz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned borrowing from Latin calix, calicis. See: Latin Nouns '
calix'.
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