caupulus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPerhaps from earlier *calpulus, from or related to Ancient Greek κάλπις (kálpis, “pitcher, vessel”).[1] An earlier suggestion linked it to caudex.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.pu.lus/, [ˈkäu̯pʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.pu.lus/, [ˈkäːu̯pulus]
Noun
editcaupulus m (genitive caupulī); second declension
- A kind of small boat
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | caupulus | caupulī |
| genitive | caupulī | caupulōrum |
| dative | caupulō | caupulīs |
| accusative | caupulum | caupulōs |
| ablative | caupulō | caupulīs |
| vocative | caupule | caupulī |
Descendants
edit- → Proto-Brythonic: *kaubul
References
edit- “caupulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caupulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Language. (1932). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 141
- ^ Schrader, Otto (1890) Frank Byron Jevons, transl., Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture, London: Charles Griffin and Company, page 278