cupula

See also: cúpula

English

Noun

cupula (plural cupulas or cupulae)

A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
(anatomy) A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation

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) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.pu.la/, [ˈkuːpʊɫ̪ä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pu.la/, [ˈkuːpulä]

Noun

cūpula f (genitive cūpulae); first declension

A small tub or cask.

Declension

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

Italian: cupola (see there for further descendants)
→ English: cupula
→ Old High German: kubilo
- Middle High German: kübel
  - German: Kübel

Further reading

“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.

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