Noun: cupola
| Singular | cupola |
| Plural | cupolas; cupolae |
Sample Sentences
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the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola. [1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:]
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The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:]
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The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material. [2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails, →ISBN:]
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Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals. [2009, S.K. Garg, Comprehensive Workshop Technology, →ISBN, page 260:]
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the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule
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From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior. [1937, Sir Gavin De Beer, The Development of the Vertebrate Skull, page 180:]
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The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7). [2015, Charles E. Smith, Trauma Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 85:]
Nouns inflected like cupola
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over. Doublet of cupula. See: Italian Nouns '
cupola', Latin Nouns '
cūpula', Latin Nouns '
cūpa'.