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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From caupō (“tradesman, innkeeper, shopkeeper, tavern-keeper”) + -a (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
caupōna f (genitive caupōnae, masculine caupō); first declension
- a female shopkeeper, landlady or hostess
- an inn
- a tavern, saloon
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
References
- “caupona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caupona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caupona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “caupona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caupona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin