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chalice [chalice 词源字典]: chalice: [13] Latin calix ‘cup’ and its relative, Greek kálux ‘pod’, perhaps hold the record for the words most often borrowed into English. Calix first made its appearance as part of the original West Germanic stratum of English, into which it had been borrowed from Latin; this was as Old English cælc. Then came cælic, which Old English independently acquired from Latin after the conversion of the English to Christianity.

Next was calice, whose source was an Old French dialectal form descended from Latin calix. And finally, at the end of the 13th century, the main Old French form chalice was adopted. The final twist in the story is that in the 17th century Latin calyx (a descendant of the related Greek kálux) was borrowed into English as a botanical term, ‘outer covering of a flower’.
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anencephalic (adj.): "having no brain" (biology), 1839, from Greek anenkephalos, from privative prefix an- (see an- (1)) + enkephalos "brain" (see encephalitis) + -ic.
cephalic (adj.): "pertaining to the head," early 15c., from Latin cephalicus, from Greek kephalikos "pertaining to the head," from kephale (see cephalo-).
chalice (n.): early 14c., from Anglo-French chalice, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice (Modern French calice), from Latin calicem (nominative calix) "cup," cognate with Greek kylix "cup, drinking cup, cup of a flower," from PIE root *kal- (1) "cup." Ousted Old English cognate cælic, an ecclesiastical borrowing of the Latin word, and earlier Middle English caliz, from Old North French.
isocephalic (adj.): "having the heads of the principal figures at about the same level," from Greek isokephalos "like-headed," from isos "equal" (see iso-) + kephale "head" (see cephalo-).
macrocephalic (adj.): 1851, from Greek makrokephalos; see macro-. Second element is from Greek kephale "head" (see cephalo-). Related: Macrocephalous; macrocephaly.
microcephalic (adj.): "small-headed," 1845, from French microcéphalique, from Modern Latin microcephalus, from Greek mikros "small" (see mica) + kephale "head" (see cephalo-). Related: Microcephalism; microcephalous (1840); microcephaly (n.).
omphalic: "Of or relating to a navel; ( Anatomy ) umbilical", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in Asiatick Researches. From ancient Greek ὀμϕαλός omphalos + -ic.
chalicothere: "A large horse-like fossil mammal of the late Tertiary period, with stout claws on the toes rather than hoofs", Early 20th century: from modern Latin Chalicotherium (genus name), from Greek khalix, khalik- 'gravel' + thērion 'wild animal'.
plagiocephalic: " Medicine and Physical Anthropol. Designating or characterized by an oblique deformity of the skull (plagiocephaly)", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. From plagio- + -cephalic, after plagiocephaly.
dolichocephalic: "Having a relatively long skull (typically with the breadth less than 80 (or 75) per cent of the length)", Mid 19th century: from Greek dolikhos 'long' + -cephalic.