ciborium
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
Definition of ciborium
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
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noun
- A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
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A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
“Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.”
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Etymology
Borrowed 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”). Doublet of cimborio.
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