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‖ cyathus|ˈsaɪəθəs|
Pl. cyathi |-θaɪ|.
[a. L. cyathus, a. Gr. κύαθος wine-cup, measure.]
1. a. Greek and Roman Antiq.: A cup or ladle used for drawing wine out of the crater n. or mixing-bowl; also, a measure (both dry and liquid) = about 1/12 of a pint. Also kyathos. b. Med. Used in prescriptions for a wine-glass. (Abbreviated cyath.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxviii. (1495) 932 The weyght Ciatus conteyneth 7. dragmes. 1658Rowland Mouf. Theat. Ins. 1104 In three cyathi of water they will break inward Impostumes. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 464 Hyle bears no greater proportion therein to soul than the drops in a cyathus to the waters of the ocean. 1854Badham Halieut. 522 The cyathus..was of as uncertain dimensions as our modern wine-glass, which is the medical cyathus, and a fair equivalent. 1889Cent. Dict., Kyathos. 1935Richter & Milne Shapes & Names Athenian Vases 30 Kyathos... Ladle in the form of a cup with foot and long upward curving handle. 1948A. Lane Greek Pott. ii. 9 The kyathos or ladle for dipping the mixture off into jugs. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 211/1 Kyathos—ladle;..Oenochoe—jug for wine; Kylix—shallow stem cup.
2. Bot. ‘The cup-like body which contains propagula or the reproductive bodies of Marchantia’ (Treas. Bot. 1866). |