cupula

See also: cúpula

English

Etymology

Latin cupula

Pronunciation

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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

Derived terms

• cupulolithiasis

Translations

cup-shaped or dome-shaped object

• Finnish: kuoppa (fi), kolo (fi) (cup-shaped); pahkula (dome-shaped)

anatomy: movable object in the ear

• Finnish: cupula (fi)
• Hungarian: kocsonyás kúp, kocsonyás test

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from cūpa +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.pʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.pu.la]

Noun

cūpula f (genitive cūpulae); first declension

1. A small tub or cask.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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
    • German: Kübel
• Sicilian: cùpula

Further reading

• “cupula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cupula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.