cuppa

== English == === Alternative forms === cupper === Etymology === Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkʌp.ə/ Rhymes: -ʌpə === Noun === cuppa (plural cuppas) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). 1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd., Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine. 2017 Mrs. S. "Guillotines Decide" Orphan Black Get Kira up. I'll pour you a cuppa. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. Pronunciation spelling of cup of. ==== Derived terms ==== cuppa joe === Anagrams === cap up == Latin == === Etymology === Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From Classical Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, vat”). Possibly influenced by Frankish *kopp (“bowl, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, bowl, vessel”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊp.pa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkup.pa] === Noun === cuppa f (genitive cuppae); first declension (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) drinking vessel barrel, cask axle bar of an oil press ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Eastern Romance: Aromanian: cupã Romanian: cupă Italo-Western Romance: Italo-Dalmatian: Italian: coppa→ Serbo-Croatian: kȕpa / ку̏па Sicilian: coppa Western Romance: Gallo-Romance: Gallo-Rhaetian: Old French: cope, cupeFrench: coupe→ English: coupeNorman: coupe Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: cope Occitano-Romance: Old Occitan: Catalan: copa Ibero-Romance: Old Leonese: Asturian: copa Old Galician-Portuguese: Portuguese: copa, copo→ Japanese: コップ (koppu)→ Kadiwéu: goopa→ Lingala: kopo, kɔ́pɔ→ Swahili: kopo Old Spanish: copa Spanish: copa→ Basque: kopa→ O'odham: ko꞉ba → Albanian: kupë → Old English: cuppeMiddle English: cuppe, coppeEnglish: cup→ Farefare: kɔpɩ→ Hebrew: קאפ (kap)→ Japanese: カップ (kappu)→ Kashubian: kopsa (Canada, United States)→ Korean: 컵 (keop)→ Māori: kapuScots: cuppe, capp, cap, caup, kap→ Middle Irish: cupaIrish: cupaScottish Gaelic: cupa→ Welsh: cwpan → Byzantine Greek: κοῦπα (koûpa), κοῦππα (koûppa)Greek: κούπα (koúpa)→ Aramaic:Hebrew script: כובא (kūbā)Syriac script: ܟܘܒܐ (kubbā)→ Arabic: كُوب (kūb)Gulf Arabic: كوب (kūb)Hijazi Arabic: كوب (kūb, kōb)Persian: کوپ (kup) → Old High German: kupfa, kupha, kuppa Middle High German: kupfe German: Kuppe Luxembourgish: Kopp → Old Irish: cuppán Irish: cupán Scottish Gaelic: copan, cupa, cupan Many descendants of Proto-Germanic *kuppaz have conflated with this word. See there for more. === References === "cuppa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)