Noun: cupule
| Singular | cupule |
| Plural | cupules |
Sample Sentences
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Then they extract a three-angled beechnut from its cupule, weigh it, and push it into the loam. [2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 146:]
Nouns inflected like cupule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kewp-der.
3. Latin cūpa
4. ▲
5. Frankish *koppinflu.?
6. Late Latin cuppabor.?
7. Proto-Indo-European *gew-der.
8. Proto-Germanic *kuppaz?
9. Old English cuppe
10. ▲
11. Proto-Germanic *kuppaz
12. Old English copp
13. Middle English cuppe, coppe
14. English cup
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
16. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom
18. Latin -ulader.
19. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
20. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
21. Proto-Italic *-elos
22. Latin -ulusder.
23. ▲
24. Latin -ulader.
25. ▲
26. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
27. Proto-Italic *-klom?
28. ▲
29. Proto-Italic *-elos?
30. Latin -ulumder.
31. French -uleder.
32. English -ule
33. English cupule
34. From cup + -ule.; former is derived from Old English copp of Germanic origin thus not related (false cognate) to cupula of Latin origin, but perhaps influenced it See: Old English Nouns '
copp'.
Verbs referencing "cupule"
English Nouns
cupula.