ciborium

English

A ciborium (canopy)

A ciborium (receptacle)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Received Pronunciation) /sɪˈbɔəɹɪəm/

Noun

ciborium (plural ciboriums or ciboria)

2. (architecture) A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
4. (Christianity) A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

   Synonym: pyx

   • 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:

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

Translations

A fixed vaulted canopy

• Esperanto: ciborio
• French: ciborium (fr) m
• German: Ziborium (de) n, Altaraufbau m
• Italian: ciborio (it) m
• Polish: cyborium (pl) n
• Portuguese: cibório (pt) m
• Spanish: ciborio (es) m

A covered receptacle

• Dutch: ciborie (nl) n
• Esperanto: ciborio
• Finnish: ehtoollisleipärasia
• French: ciboire (fr) m
• German: Ziborium (de) n, Hostienkelch m
• Indonesian: sibori
• Irish: cuach abhlann m, cuach altóra m
• Polish: cyborium (pl) n
• Spanish: copón (es) m
• Welsh: afrllatgist f

Further reading

• ciborium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ciborium. Doublet of ciboire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.bɔ.ʁjɔm/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

ciborium m (plural ciboriums)

1. ciborium

Latin

Alternative forms

• cibōria, cibōreum, cybōrium, cybōreum (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪˈboː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈbɔː.ri.um]

Noun

cibōrium n (genitive cibōriī or cibōrī); 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, Horatius, Carmina 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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cibōrium	cibōria
genitive	cibōriī cibōrī1	cibōriōrum
dative	cibōriō	cibōriīs
accusative	cibōrium	cibōria
ablative	cibōriō	cibōriīs
vocative	cibōrium	cibōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: cimbori (semi-learned)
  • → Sassarese: zimboina
• → Czech: ciborium
• → Danish: ciborium
• → English: ciborium
• → Esperanto: ciborio
  • → Ido: ciborio
• → French: ciborium
• → Galician: cimorro (semi-learned), ciborio
• → German: Ziborium
• → Hungarian: cibórium
• → Interlingua: ciborio
• → Italian: civorio (semi-learned), ciborio
• → Middle Dutch: cyborie
  • Dutch: ciborie
    • → Indonesian: sibori
• →? Middle High German: zibōrje
  • → Old Czech: cimbořie
    • Czech: cimbuří
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ciborium
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ciborium
• → Old French: civoire, ciboire (semi-learned)
  • French: ciboire
  • → Breton: siboer
  • → English: severy
• → Old Occitan: cibori
  • Occitan: cibòri
• → Polish: cyborium
• → Portuguese: zimbório (semi-learned), cibório
• → Spanish: cimborrio, cimorro (semi-learned), ciborio
  • → English: cimborio
• → Swedish: ciborium

References

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “ciborium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001