crapula

See also: crápula

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹapjʊlə/

Noun

crapula (plural crapulas)

1. (obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
   • 1726, Peter Shaw, A New Practice of Physic:

     If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]

   • 1794, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations. Second American edition:

     Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed.

   • 1808, Thomas Topham, A new compendious system on several diseases incident to cattle:

     Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence.

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 214:

     [I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth.

Related terms

• crapulence
• crapulent
• crapulental
• crapulous

 

Translations

sickness

• Finnish: krapula (fi)
• Portuguese: ressaca (pt) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: crápula (es) f, borrachera (es) f
• Swedish: (hangover) bakfylla (sv) f

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkra.pu.la/
• Hyphenation: crà‧pu‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin crāpula (“excessive drinking”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē).

Noun

crapula f (plural crapule)

1. (literary) Excessive eating and drinking; gluttony

   Synonym: gozzoviglia

Derived terms

• crapulone

Related terms

• crapulare
• crapuloso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

crapula

1. third-person singular present indicative of crapulare

References

• crapula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkraː.pu.la/, [ˈkräːpʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.pu.la/, [ˈkräːpulä]

Noun

crāpula f (genitive crāpulae); first declension

1. excessive drinking, drunkenness, inebriation, intoxication

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crāpula	crāpulae
Genitive	crāpulae	crāpulārum
Dative	crāpulae	crāpulīs
Accusative	crāpulam	crāpulās
Ablative	crāpulā	crāpulīs
Vocative	crāpula	crāpulae

Descendants

• English: crapula
• French: crapule
• Finnish: krapula
• Italian: crapula
• Portuguese: crápula
• Romanian: crapulare
• Spanish: crápula

References

• “crapula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crapula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crapula 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)
• crapula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.