Cupra

See also: cupra and çupra

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), the same root in the verb cupiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pra/, [ˈkʊprä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pra/, [ˈkuːprä]

Proper noun

Cupra f sg (genitive Cuprae); first declension

1. epithet of Juno among Etruscans
2. A town in Picenum situated on the Adriatic coast

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cupra
Genitive	Cuprae
Dative	Cuprae
Accusative	Cupram
Ablative	Cuprā
Vocative	Cupra
Locative	Cuprae

References

• “Cupra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cupra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.