Crossword clues for kylix
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Greek kylix "cup," cognate with Latin calix, from PIE root *kal- (1) "cup" (see chalice).
Wiktionary
n. An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body
WordNet
Wikipedia
Kylix may mean:
- Kylix (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Drilliidae.
- Kylix (drinking cup), a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece
- Kylix (software), a programming tool
Borland Kylix is a compiler and integrated development environment (IDE) formerly sold by Borland, but later discontinued. It is a Linux version of the Borland Delphi software development environment and C++Builder, which runs under Microsoft Windows. Continuing Delphi's classical Greek theme, Kylix is the name for an ancient Greek drinking cup. The closest supported equivalent to Kylix is the free Lazarus IDE package, designed to be code-compatible with Delphi. As of 2010 the project has been resurrected in the form of Delphi cross compiler for Mac and Linux, as shown in the Embarcadero's Delphi and C++ Builder roadmap. As of September 2011 with Kylix discontinued the framework for cross-platform development by Embarcadero is FireMonkey
In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (; pronounced , "" or , "", also spelled cylix; pl.: kylikes , "" or , "") is the most common type of wine-drinking cup. It has a broad, relatively shallow, body raised on a stem from a foot and usually two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically. The main alternative wine-cup shape was the kantharos, with a narrower and deeper cup and high vertical handles.
The almost flat interior circle of the base of the cup, called the tondo, was generally the primary surface for painted decoration in the black-figure or red-figure pottery styles of the 6th and 5th century BC, and the outside was also often painted. As the representations would be covered with wine, the scenes would only be revealed in stages as the wine was drained. They were often designed with this in mind, with scenes created so that they would surprise or titillate the drinker as they were revealed.
The word comes from the Greek kylix "cup," which is cognate with Latin calix, the source of the English word " chalice" but not related to the similar Greek word calyx which means "husk" or "pod". The term seems to have been rather more generally used in ancient Greece. Individual examples and the many named sub-varieties of kylix are often called names just using "cup". Like all other types of Greek pottery vessels, they are also covered by the general term of "vase".
'Kylix ' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Usage examples of "kylix".
Charles Ward - all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
He turned from the inscriptions to face the room with its bizarre contents, and saw that the kylix on the floor, in which the ominous efflorescent powder had lain, was giving forth a cloud of thick, greenish-black vapour of surprising volume and opacity.
There was nothing to relate beyond the looming up of that form when the greenish-black vapour from the kylix parted, and Willett was too tired to ask himself what had really occurred.
Charles Ward--all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
There was a rhyton in the form of a human head, a black-figure kylix on one side, a small red-figure amphora on the other.
Beneath the lid was enacted, in Boucheresque eighteenth-century terms, exactly the same scene as some ancient Greek had painted in the kylix two thousand years before.
The jugs and kylixes were appropriate to the time, but that door, sliding into a tightly lasered seam, was not.
The jugs and kylixes were appropriate to the time, but that door, sliding into a tightly lasered seam, was not.