Calix, cálicis, pen. cor. m. g. Varr. A cup: goblet: or masar: a chalice: a pot wherein meate is sod.Calices ex terra facti. Vitruu. Earthen.Calix auratus. Propert. Gilted.Coronatus calix. Tibul. Couered.Calix fœcundus. Horat. A full cup.Inæquales calices. Horat. Of diuerse biguesses.Plebeij calices.Iuuen.Of small value.Calix vitreus. Mart. A drinking glasse. Impingere alicui calicem.Cic.Siccare calices. Horat. To drinke vp all.Texere calices smaragdis. Plin. To set with precious stones.Tractare calicem. Horat. To handle.Amarior calix Catul. Continens pro contento. Calix. Plin. The bottome of a boate. Calix cochleæ. Plin. The shell of a fish.Caliculus pen. cor. Diminutiuum. Plin. A little cup, gobblet, or masar: a holow thing in the legge of Polypus. Callaria.A whiting.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
călix, ĭcis, m. [root cal-, cover; cf. caligo; Germ. Kelch]. I.A cup, goblet, a drinking-vessel: ku/lic poculi genus, quod nos una littera immutata calicem dicimus, Macr. S. 5, 21; Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 8; Cic. Pis. 27, 67; id. Tusc. 3, 19, 44; Tib. 2, 5, 98; Prop. 2 (3), 33, 40; Hor. S. 2, 4, 79; 2, 6, 68; 2, 8, 35; Plin. 33, prooem. 2, 5; 36, 40, 66, 195; Juv. 11, 145.—B.Meton., wine, = vinum, Cat. 27, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 19 al.—II.A cooking-vessel, pot, Cato, R. R. 39, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 7; id. L. L. 5, 27, 36; Ov. F. 5, 509.— III. Of aqueducts, a small pipe, Front. Aquaed. 36.