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A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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Antonyms: none provided
A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: pyx
Antonyms: none provided
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.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Esperanto:
ciborio
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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French:
ciborium
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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German:
Ziborium
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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German:
Altaraufbau
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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Italian:
ciborio
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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Polish:
cyborium
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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Portuguese:
cibório
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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Spanish:
ciborio
— A fixed vaulted canopy
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Dutch:
ciborie
— A covered receptacle
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Esperanto:
ciborio
— A covered receptacle
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French:
ciboire
— A covered receptacle
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German:
Ziborium
— A covered receptacle
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German:
Hostienkelch
— A covered receptacle
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Indonesian:
sibori
— A covered receptacle
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Irish:
cuach abhlann
— A covered receptacle
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Irish:
cuach altóra
— A covered receptacle
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Polish:
cyborium
— A covered receptacle
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Spanish:
copón
— A covered receptacle
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Welsh:
afrllatgist
— A covered receptacle