caupulus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from earlier *calpulus, from or related to Ancient Greek κάλπις (kálpis, “pitcher, vessel”).[1] An earlier suggestion linked it to caudex.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

caupulus m (genitive caupulī); second declension

  1. A kind of small boat

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative caupulus caupulī
genitive caupulī caupulōrum
dative caupulō caupulīs
accusative caupulum caupulōs
ablative caupulō caupulīs
vocative caupule caupulī

Descendants

  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kaubul

References

  • “caupulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caupulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Language. (1932). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 141
  2. ^ Schrader, Otto (1890) Frank Byron Jevons, transl., Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture, London: Charles Griffin and Company, page 278
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