cuppes

== Latin == === Etymology === From cupiō (“to desire”). The gemination may be explained by the littera rule, one would then expect older*cūpēd-, from Proto-Italic *koup-ēd-. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ēd-?”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊp.peːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkup.pes] === Noun === cuppēs m (genitive cuppēdis); third declension (hapax legomenon) sweet tooth, glutton, one with a taste for delicacies ==== Usage notes ==== The masculine nominative singular form cuppēs occurs in Plautus' Trinummus as part of a list of negative nouns and adjectives describing love. Based on related words, the stem is inferred to be cuppēd-. The word could be a third-declension masculine noun or an adjective. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cuppēdia cuppēdinārius cuppēdō === References === “cuppes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cuppes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "cuppes", 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)