scyphus

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
2. The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
3. A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

Synoniemen

cup

porringer

Vertalingen

skyphos

Etymologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skúphos).