cupola

English

A cupola atop Cardiff's city hall

Etymology

From Italian cupola, from Latin cupula (“little tub”); from Latin cupa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkjuːpələ/

Noun

cupola (plural cupolas or cupolae)

1. (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
2. (military) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.

Derived terms

• cupolaed

Translations

architecture: dome-shaped ornamental structure

• Armenian: գմբեթ (hy) (gmbet’)
• Bashkir: көмбәҙ (kömbäð)
• Bulgarian: купол (bg) (kupol) m
• Czech: kopule (cs) f
• Dutch: koepel (nl) m
• German: Kuppel (de) f
• Hungarian: kupola (hu)

• Italian: cupola (it) f
• Polish: kopuła (pl) f
• Portuguese: cúpula (pt) f, redoma (pt) f
• Russian: купол (ru) (kúpol) m, свод (ru) (svod) m
• Spanish: cúpula (es) f

military: small turret

• Bulgarian: бойна кула (bg) (bojna kula) f
• Dutch: koepel (nl) m

• Russian: башня (ru) (bášn'a) f

External links

• Cupola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• (etymology) cupola in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• copula
• coupla
• pocula

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Italian

Noun

cupola f (plural cupole)

1. dome
2. cupola

Anagrams

• copula