cupa.
dancing-girl; female tavern-keeper and castanet-dancer (L+S); female vintner; bar of an oil press (axle for millstones); axle; crooked handle (L+S); barrel, cask, vat, tun; (esp. for wine); niche in a columbarium (for ashes);
Meaning & usage
tub, cask, tun, vat
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”), perhaps of substrate origin. Cognate with Old English hȳf (modern English hive), Sanskrit कूप (kūpa, “well, hollow, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker, goblet”).
handle, axle
Where this word comes from
From Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē).
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