cupa

See also: cupã and cupă

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”)

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
  • "cupa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “cupa” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “cupa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “cupa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Adjective

cupa f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective cupo.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Cognate with Old English hȳf (modern English hive) and Sanskrit कूप (kūpa, “well, hollow, vat”)

Pronunciation

Noun

cūpa f (genitive cūpae); first declension

  1. handle, axle
  2. tub, cask, tun, vat

Inflection

First declension.

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

Descendants

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, 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

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
cupachupa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “cupa” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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