cupa

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.pa/, [ˈkuːpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pa/, [ˈkuːpä]

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”).^[1]

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē).

References

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

Etymology

From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰuʰpʰə/

Noun

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

1. cup
2. vial

See also

• cuppa

Mutation

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cupa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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