cupa

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

Declension of cupa (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cupa cupaí vocative a chupa a chupaí genitive cupa cupaí dative cupa cupaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cupa na cupaí genitive an chupa na gcupaí dative leis an gcupa don chupa leis na cupaí

Derived terms

• 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”)

Related terms

• cupán

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

• 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, 2013-2025

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

cupa f sg

1. feminine singular of cupo

Latin

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]

Noun

cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first declension

1. tub, cask, tun, vat

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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
• Dutch: kuip
• French: cuve
• Italian: cupo
• → Old English: cȳf
  • Middle English: kive
    • English: keeve
• →? Old English: cȳpe
  • >? Middle English: cǒupe, cupe
    • English: coop
    • Yola: coopen
• 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	cūpa	cūpae
genitive	cūpae	cūpārum
dative	cūpae	cūpīs
accusative	cūpam	cūpās
ablative	cūpā	cūpīs
vocative	cūpa	cūpae

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

• IPA^(key): /kʰuʰpʰə/

Noun

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

1. cup
2. vial

Derived terms

• gille-cupa m (“cup-bearer”)

See also

• cuppa

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 [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