FromMiddle Irish cupa , fromMiddle English cuppe .
cupa m (genitive singular cupa ,nominative plural cupaí )
cup ( botany ) cup( of flower ) cupel Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “cupa ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “cupa ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ) “cupa ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“cupa ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025 cupa f sg
feminine singular ofcupo FromProto-Indo-European *kewp- ( “ a hollow ” ) , perhaps ofsubstrate origin. Cognate withOld English hȳf (modernEnglish hive ),Sanskrit कूप ( kūpa ,“ well, hollow, vat ” ) ,Ancient Greek κύπελλον ( kúpellon ,“ beaker, goblet ” ) .[ 1]
cūpa f (genitive cūpae ) ;first declension
tub ,cask ,tun ,vat First-declension noun.
From Ancient Greekκώπη ( kṓpē ) .
cūpa f (genitive cūpae ) ;first declension
handle ,axle First-declension noun.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008 ) “cūpa”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN ,page155 “cupa ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “cupa ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "cupa ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) cupa inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. “cupa ”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers “cupa ”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin FromMiddle Irish cupa , fromMiddle English cuppe .
cupa m (genitive singular cupa ,plural cupachan or cupaichean or cupanan )
cup vial Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Edward Dwelly (1911 ) “cupa”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ][1] , 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “cupa ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language