Cupra

See also: cupra and çupra

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), the same root in the verb cupiō.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cupra f sg (genitive Cuprae); first declension

  1. epithet of Juno among Etruscans
  2. a town in Picenum situated on the Adriatic coast

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Cupra
genitive Cuprae
dative Cuprae
accusative Cupram
ablative Cuprā
vocative Cupra
locative Cuprae

References

  • “Cupra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cupra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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