cupula

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cūpula, from cūpa +‎ -ula. Doublet of cupola. False cognate of English cupule in which English cup is descendant of Old English copp of Germanic origin. === Pronunciation === === Noun === cupula (plural cupulas or cupulae) A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object. (anatomy) A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive from cūpa +‎ -ula. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.pʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.pu.la] === Noun === cūpula f (genitive cūpulae); first declension A small tub or cask. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: cupola (see there for further descendants) → English: cupula → Old High German: kubilo Middle High German: kübel German: Kübel Sicilian: cùpula === Further reading === “cupula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "cupula", 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) “cupula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.