caupulus

Latin

Alternative forms

caupilus

Etymology

Perhaps from earlier *calpulus, from or related to Ancient Greek κάλπις (kálpis, “pitcher, vessel”).^[1] An earlier suggestion linked it to caudex.^[2]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkau̯.pʊ.ɫʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːu̯.pu.lus]

Noun

caupulus m (genitive caupulī); second declension

A kind of small boat

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caupulus	caupulī
genitive	caupulī	caupulōrum
dative	caupulō	caupulīs
accusative	caupulum	caupulōs
ablative	caupulō	caupulīs
vocative	caupule	caupulī

Descendants

→ Proto-Brythonic: *kaubul
- Breton: kobal
- Middle Welsh: keubal
  - Welsh: ceubal
- Cumbric: *cowbal
  - → Middle English: coble
    - English: coble

References

“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

[1] Language. (1932). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 141

[2] 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

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