cupel

English

Alternative forms

• copel, coppel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːpəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpəl

Noun

cupel (plural cupels)

1. A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.

Derived terms

• cupelation, cupellation
• cupel-dust
• cupellate

Descendants

• → Welsh: ciwpel

Translations

a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead

• Armenian: քուրայ (kʻuray)
• Catalan: copel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: coupelle (fr) f
• Galician: copela (gl) f
• German: Treibherd m, Probiertiegel m, Kupelle f
• Ido: kupelo (io)
• Irish: cupa m
• Italian: coppella (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kupela f
• Russian: тиге́ль (ru) m (tigélʹ)
• Spanish: copela (es) f
• Welsh: ciwpel m, coethlestr m, llestr coethi m

Verb

cupel (third-person singular simple present cupels, present participle (US) cupeling or (UK) cupelling, simple past and past participle (US) cupeled or (UK) cupelled)

1. To refine or assay using a cupel.

Synonyms

• cupellate

Derived terms

• cupeller

Translations

to refine by means of a cupel

• Catalan: copel·lar (ca)
• Galician: copelar (gl)
• Ido: kupelagar (io)
• Italian: coppellare (it)
• Latin: pustulatus, pusulatus (adjective)
• Polish: kupelować impf
• Welsh: ciwpelu

Anagrams

• culpe, pecul, pucel