cupa Latin · revision 3430

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Cato|origins=itc-pro *kū̆p-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkuː.pa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkuː.pa]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cūpa''' ''f'' (genitive cūpae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*kū̆p-]], probably a non-Indo-European loanword that spread to many languages, which would explain why the /u/ is sometimes long and sometimes short.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary takes it from [[ine-pro|*kewp-|t=hollow]], perhaps of substrate origin.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Compare [[sa|कूप|tr=kū́pa|t=pit, well]], [[grc|κύπελλον|tr=kúpellon|t=beaker]] and [[ang|hȳf|t=beehive]], the source of [[en|hive]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Saalfeld takes it from [[grc|κύπη|tr=kúpē|t=hole]].^(Saalfeld 1874)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Cato onwards,^(de Vaan 2008) who lists ten small casks among the things needed for a press room.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a large wooden cask or tub, for wine and also for grain, as in Varro, Cicero and Caesar, who had casks filled with pitch and pine.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In inscriptions it also meant a niche for ashes in a columbarium, or a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ The spelling ''cuppa'' appears in the Digest.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin of Catalonia it was a large wine vat, while ''cuppa'' meant a drinking cup.^(GMLC) Its descendants include French ''cuve'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''cuba'', and Etymonline traces English ''coop'' to it through Old English.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato lists casks for the press room.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of wine casks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar describes casks filled with pitch.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 949 – A Catalan inventory lists wine vats.^(GMLC)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''coop'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|cask]], tub, [[m|en|barrel]], [[m|en|vat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A niche for ashes in a [[m|en|columbarium]]; a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cūpārius]]

+ * [[cupella]]

+ * [[cūpula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|coop]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A second ''cūpa'' in Cato is the bar of an oil mill, from [[grc|κώπη|tr=kṓpē|t=handle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}