[si-bawr-ee-uh
m, -bohr-] 
[-bawr-ee-uh, -bohr-] . | 1. | a permanent canopy placed over an altar; baldachin. |
| 2. | any container designed to hold the consecrated bread or sacred wafers for the Eucharist. |
| 3. | Archaic. a severy. |
rion lit., the seed vessel of the Egyptian lotus, which the cup appar. resembled| ci·bo·ri·um (sĭ-bôr'ē-əm, -bōr'-) n. pl. ci·bo·ri·a (-bôr'ē-ə, -bōr'-)
[Medieval Latin cibōrium, from Latin, a drinking cup, from Greek kibōrion, probably of Egyptian origin.] |