caupo

• cōpō, cūpō

Cognate with Ancient Greek κᾰ́πηλος (kápēlos), possibly from Pre-Greek, likely borrowed separately. A derivation of either from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂- (“to buy”), whence ἐπρῐάμην (epriámēn) as suppletive Aorist of ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai, “to buy”), seems far-fetched. Beekes mentions, Furnee offers Hittite ḫappar (“purchase, price”) as a comparandum, in which case the IE derivation would be *h₃ep-, whence ops (“power”) and Homeric Ancient Greek ἀφνειός (aphneiós, “rich, wealthy”), although also speculative. Gemoll considers a connection to Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “gulp down, snap”). This noun is also masculine.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.poː/

caupō m (genitive caupōnis); third declension

1. Tradesman.
2. Innkeeper, shopkeeper.

Third declension.

• Proto-Germanic: *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy; trade”) (see there for further descendants)

• caupo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caupo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caupo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caupo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caupo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caupo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Edzard Johan Furnée: Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen mit einem Appendix über den Vokalismus. Mouton, The Hague 1972.
• Wilhelm Gemoll: Griechisch-deutsches Schul- und Handwörterbuch. öbv & hpt / Oldenbourg, Vienna and Munich ⁹1965, p. 407.