cupula

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Diminutive from cūpa +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cūpula f (genitive cūpulae); first declension

  1. A small tub or cask.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūpula cūpulae
Genitive cūpulae cūpulārum
Dative cūpulae cūpulīs
Accusative cūpulam cūpulās
Ablative cūpulā cūpulīs
Vocative cūpula cūpulae

Descendants[edit]

  • Italian: cupola (see there for further descendants)
  • English: cupula
  • Old High German: kubilo

Further reading[edit]

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