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From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.
cupa m (genitive singular **cupa, nominative plural cupaí)
cístín cupa (“cupcake”)
(cluiche) cupa is liathróide (“cup-and-ball (game)”)
cupa dearcáin (“acorn-cup”)
cupa sróine (“a large thick nose”)
cupa súcháin (“suction cup”)
cupa súl (“eye-bath”)
práta cupaí (“large variety of potatoes”)
| 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. |
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cupa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cupa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cupa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cupa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- IPA(key): /ˈku.pa/
- Rhymes: -upa
- Hyphenation: cù‧pa
cupa f sg
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.pa/, [ˈkuːpä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.pa/, [ˈkuːpä]
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]
cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first 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 |
- ⇒ 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
From Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē).
cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first 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 |
- “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
- ^ 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
From Middle Irish cupa, from Middle English cuppe.
cupa m (genitive singular **cupa, plural cupachan or cupaichean or cupanan)
- gille-cupa m (“cup-bearer”)
- cuppa
| 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. |
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cupa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 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