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See also: cupã, cupă, çupa, and чупа

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.

Noun

cupa m (genitive singular cupa, nominative plural cupaí)

  1. cup
    1. (botany) cup (of flower)
  2. cupel

Declension

Declension of cupa (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cupa cupaí
vocative a chupa a chupaí
genitive cupa cupaí
dative cupa cupaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cupa na cupaí
genitive an chupa na gcupaí
dative leis an gcupa
don chupa
leis na cupaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cupa
radical lenition eclipsis
cupa chupa gcupa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.pa/
  • Rhymes: -upa
  • Hyphenation: cù‧pa

Adjective

cupa f sg

  1. feminine singular of cupo

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (a hollow), perhaps of substrate origin. Cognate with Old English hȳf (modern English hive), Sanskrit कूप (kūpa, well, hollow, vat), Ancient Greek κύπελλον (kúpellon, beaker, goblet).

Noun

cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first declension

  1. tub, cask, tun, vat
Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Latin: cūpula
  • Late Latin: cuppa (see there for further descendants)
  • Bourguignon: cueuve
  • German: Kufe
  • Dutch: kuip
  • French: cuve
  • Italian: cupo
  • Old English: cȳf
  • ? Old English: cȳpe
  • Spanish: cuba
  • Portuguese: cuba

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē).

Noun

cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first declension

  1. handle, axle
Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cūpa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 155

Further reading

  • cupa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cupa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "cupa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cupa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cupa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cupa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.

Pronunciation

Noun

cupa m (genitive singular cupa, plural cupachan or cupaichean or cupanan)

  1. cup
  2. vial

Derived terms

See also

Mutation

Mutation of cupa
radical lenition
cupa chupa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cupa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cupa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language