cuppedo

Forms

cuppēdō f (genitive cuppēdinis); third declension^[1] It is also spelled ⟨cūpēdō⟩.^[2][3]

Etymology

The OLD compares cuppēs (“fond of delicacies”) and cupīdō (“desire”),^[2] and Lewis and Short take it to be at first a collateral form of ⟨cupīdō⟩.^[4] Wiktionary gives both explanations: a formation on ⟨cuppēs⟩, or a variant of ⟨cupīdō⟩ that took on a meaning of its own.^[1] De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of cupiō (“to desire”); he explains the ⟨ē⟩ of the ⟨cuppēd-⟩ words from Proto-Indo-European *kup-eh₁- and the double ⟨pp⟩ of ⟨cuppēs⟩ from Proto-Italic *koup-ēd- (“gluttonous”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Varro,^[5] who in De lingua Latina names the forum cuppedinis, the market of delicacies, and derives the name from fastidium, while many derived it from cupiditas.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

In the name forum cuppedinis it means delicacies or a taste for them.^[2][7] A fragment of Varro in Donatus says the market was named after a Numerius Equitius Cuppes who lived there, and Paulus' epitome of Festus says the meat market was once called by this name.^[6][2] Apuleius uses the same name for a market in the Thessalian town of Hypata.^[6][7]

Lucretius uses it instead in the sense of cupīdō, desire: in his poem things are overcome by a desire for the centre, and the breast burns with dire longing.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 116–27 BC – Varro names the forum cuppedinis, the market of delicacies.^[2][8]
• 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of desire and longing.^[2][8]
• c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses the market name of Hypata.^[6][8]

Meanings

Noun

1. (in forum cuppedinis) A delicacy, tidbit; a market where delicacies were sold.^[2][7]
2. (in Lucretius) Desire, longing.^[2][3]

Word family

• cuppēdenārius

Related words

• cupiō
• cupīdō
• cuppēdia

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
4. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
7. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
8. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de