cupula

See also: cúpula

English

Noun

cupula (plural cupulas or cupulae)

  1. A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
  2. (anatomy) A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from cūpa + -ula.

Pronunciation

Noun

cūpula f (genitive cūpulae); first declension

  1. A small tub or cask.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūpula cūpulae
Genitive cūpulae cūpulārum
Dative cūpulae cūpulīs
Accusative cūpulam cūpulās
Ablative cūpulā cūpulīs
Vocative cūpula cūpulae

Descendants

  • Italian: cupola (see there for further descendants)
  • English: cupula
  • Old High German: kubilo
    • Middle High German: kübel

Further reading

  • cupula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cupula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cupula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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