cuspis
See also: cuspís
English
Etymology
Noun
cuspis (plural cuspes)
- A point; a sharp end.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cuspis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
Unknown origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), related to include Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina).[1]
Noun
cuspis f (genitive cuspidis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cuspis | cuspidēs |
Genitive | cuspidis | cuspidum |
Dative | cuspidī | cuspidibus |
Accusative | cuspidem | cuspidēs |
Ablative | cuspide | cuspidibus |
Vocative | cuspis | cuspidēs |
Descendants
References
- “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cuspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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