cup English · revision 3442

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1000 (Ælfric)|origins=la cūpa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kʌp/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|cuppe]], [[inh|ang|cuppe]], Northumbrian copp,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) [[bor|la-lat|cuppa|t=cup]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MW Collegiate) a variant of [[la|cūpa|t=tub, cask]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(SOED 2002) the source of Italian [[m|it|coppa]] and Spanish [[m|es|copa]].^(Etymonline) The Late Latin word was borrowed throughout Germanic: Dutch [[m|nl|kopje|t=cup]] and German [[m|de|Kopf]], which now means only “head”.^(Etymonline)^(Klein 1966)^(MWU 2024) Etymonline cites de Vaan for a non-Indo-European loanword *kup- behind Latin ''cūpa'' and similar words for hollows.^(Etymonline) Some Middle English forms come from Old French [[m|fro|cupe]].^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A drinking vessel: Old English ''cuppe'', about 1000, in Ælfric's ''Glossary''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The chalice at Communion is the ''cup'' from 1382.^(OED 1989) The quantity a cup holds is from the late 14th century, and anything cup-shaped from about 1400.^(Etymonline) The biblical “cup” of suffering is from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline) A cup offered as a prize in a race is from the 1640s,^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) first in horse-racing.^(Cresswell 2021) ''In one's cups'', “drunk”, is from the 1610s.^(Etymonline) The verb “to bleed with a cupping glass” is from the late 14th century^(Etymonline) or 1482,^(OED 1989) and “to form a cup”, as with the hands, from 1830.^(Etymonline) The cup of a bra is from 1938, and ''one's cup of tea'' by 1932.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1000 – Old English ''cuppe'' (Ælfric).^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1382 – the Communion chalice.^(OED 1989)

+ * late 14th century – a cupful; verb, to bleed.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1610s – ''in one's cups''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1640s – a trophy.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1830 – verb, to form a cup.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1932 – ''cup of tea''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1938 – the cup of a bra.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small open container, usually with a handle, used for drinking; its contents.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # A unit of volume, especially in cooking.^(AHD)

+ # A cup-shaped [[trophy]] given as a prize; a competition for one.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # Something shaped like a cup.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # The [[chalice]] or wine of the [[Eucharist]].^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To place in or as in a cup; to shape like a cup.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To treat by [[cupping]].^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cuplike]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cupboard]]

+ * [[cupola]]

+ * [[coop]]

+ * [[hive]]

+ * [[cupping]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}