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The English word "cup" has meant a drinking vessel since at least 1000 AD. [7] [8] The definition of a cup is fluid, and is likely to be wider in specialist areas such as archaeology than in modern common speech.
The term 'frilly-based tyg' is used in some English archaeological literature [3] to refer to a type of medieval and early post-medieval drinking mug or pitcher, usually wheel-thrown with a rounded belly and a straight or flared neck, which may have one or more handles. The 'frilly base' refers to the foot-ring of the mug, which after throwing ...
The word cup comes from Middle English cuppe, from Old English, from Late Latin cuppa, drinking vessel, perhaps variant of Latin cupa, tub, cask. [2] The first known use of the word cup is before the 12th century.
The word "ciborium" was also used in classical Latin to describe such cups, [2] although the only example to have survived is in one of Horace's odes (2.7.21–22). [ 3 ] In medieval Latin, and in English, "Ciborium" more commonly refers to a covered container used in Roman Catholic , Anglican , Lutheran and related churches to store the ...
A tankard is a form of drinkware consisting of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle. In recent centuries tankards were typically made of silver or pewter, but can be made of other materials, for example glass, wood, pottery, or boiled leather. [1]
Silver kylix with Helen and Hermes, c. 420 BC. In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (/ ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k s / KY-liks, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k s / KIL-iks; Ancient Greek: κύλιξ, pl. κύλικες; also spelled cylix; pl.: kylikes / ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k iː z / KY-lih-keez, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k iː z / KIL-ih-keez) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.
A quaich / ˈ k w eɪ x /, archaically quaigh or quoich, is a special kind of shallow two-handled drinking cup or bowl of a type traditional in Scotland. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic cuach (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation:), meaning a cup.
A chalice (from Latin calix 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek κύλιξ 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the cups used in Christian liturgy as part of a service of the Eucharist, such as a Catholic mass ...