cupa

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See also: cupã, cupă, 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

Derived terms

Related terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cupa chupa gcupa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūpa cūpae
Genitive cūpae cūpārum
Dative cūpae cūpīs
Accusative cūpam cūpās
Ablative cūpā cūpīs
Vocative cūpa cūpae
Descendants
  • Latin: cūpula
  • Late Latin: cuppa (see there for further descendants)
  • Bourguignon: cueuve
  • German: Kufe
  • 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūpa cūpae
Genitive cūpae cūpārum
Dative cūpae cūpīs
Accusative cūpam cūpās
Ablative cūpā cūpīs
Vocative cūpa cūpae

References

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

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

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cupa chupa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cupa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cupa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language