Word Origin Summary

Scyphus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. σκῠ́φοςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• scifo

  Italian · borrowed from

• scyphus

  English · borrowed from

• scyphiform

  English · derived from

• scifu

  Sicilian · borrowed from

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