Noun: calice
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | calice |
| Plural m | calices |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like calice
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix). Compare also the inherited Old French chalice. See: Latin Nouns '
calix', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κύλιξ'.
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