ciborium

From Medieval Latin cibōrium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”).[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈbɔəɹɪəm/[1]

ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)

1. A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
2. A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
   • 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter

     Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.

• ciborium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• cibōria, cibōreum, cybōrium, cybōreum (Medieval)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈboː.ri.um/, [kɪˈboː.ri.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈbo.ri.um/, [t͡ʃiˈboː.ri.um]

cibōrium n (genitive cibōriī); 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
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes II.7.21–23:

     Oblivioso levia Massico
     ciboria exple, funde capacibus
     unguenta de conchis!

     Fill the light goblets with wine from the Massicus that wreaks forgetfulness, slop salves from big shells!

3. (Medieval Latin) a vaulted canopy over a Christian altar fixed on four columns

   Synonyms: umbrāculum, tegumen

Second declension.

• 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