cupo

Possibly related to Latin cūpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.po/
• Rhymes: -upo
• Hyphenation: cù‧po

cupo (feminine cupa, masculine plural cupi, feminine plural cupe)

1. deep

   Synonyms: fondo, profondo

   una cupa voragine ― a deep abyss

2. dark
3. deep (of a sound, voice, etc.)

   Synonyms: cavernoso, grave, sordo

4. taciturn, uncommunicative (of a person)
5. sullen, morose (of a person)
6. (rare) bushy, dense
7. (regional) deep (of a container)

• cupamente
• cupezza

• cupo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.po]

cūpō m (genitive cūpōnis); third declension

1. alternative form of caupō

Third-declension noun.

• "cupo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkupo/ [ˈku.po]
• Rhymes: -upo
• Syllabification: cu‧po

From caber.

cupo m (plural cupos)

1. quota
2. capacity
3. available room, space
   • 2015, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Ciertas maneras de no hacer nada:

     Un hermano mío salió de bachiller en ciencias […] y pasó un calvario para conseguir cupo en la universidad: todavía no lo tiene.

     One of my brothers came out of high school with science diplomas […] he went through an ordeal to get a spot at university: he still hasn't got one.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cupo

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of caber

• “cupo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024