cup – English noun declension

English noun forms of cup

Noun: cup
Singularcup
Pluralcups

Sample Sentences

  • Pour the tea into the cup.
  • I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
  • In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property. [2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:]
  • The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
  • Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
  • Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups. [2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books, →ISBN:]
  • Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season. [2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn, →ISBN:]
  • One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin. [2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn, →ISBN:]
  • The ball just misses the cup.
  • cider cup
  • gin cup
  • claret cup
  • The bridge tables were not set out in the garden-room, which entailed a scurry over damp gravel on a black, windy night, but in the little square parlour above her diningroom, where Withers, in the intervals of admitting her guests, was laying out plates of sandwiches and the chocolate cakes, reinforced when the interval for refreshments came with hot soup, whisky and syphons, and a jug of “cup” prepared according to an ancestral and economical recipe, which Miss Mapp had taken a great deal of trouble about. A single bottle of white wine, with suitable additions of ginger, nutmeg, herbs and soda-water, was the mother of a gallon of a drink that seemed aflame with fiery and probably spirituous ingredients. Guests were very careful how they partook of it, so stimulating it seemed. [1922, E.F. Benson, Miss Mapp, London: Heinemann, published 1970, SBN 434 06504 8, pages 158–159:]
  • Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
  • Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed. [2000 March 27, Bill Amend, FoxTrot (comic):]
  • The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
  • "For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once." [2010, Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Books 1-6, page 1149:]
  • the cup of an acorn
  • The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. [1745, William Shenstone, Elegy VIII:]
  • Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane. [2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143:]
  • O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 26:39:]

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. Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”).
16. Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)).
17. The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve. See: Middle English Nouns 'cuppe', Middle English Nouns 'cuppe', Old English Nouns 'cuppe', Old English Nouns 'copp', Old English Nouns 'cuppe', Latin Nouns 'cūpa', Old English Nouns 'copp', English Nouns 'cop', German Nouns 'Kopf', Latin Nouns 'cuppa', Dutch Nouns 'kop', Danish Nouns 'kop', Swedish Nouns 'kopp'.

Verbs referencing "cup"

Dutch Nouns cup, Finnish Nouns cup, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns cup, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns cup, Swedish Nouns cup, German Nouns Kopf, Bulgarian Nouns купа, German Nouns Kuppe, German Nouns Cup.