Cupra

See also: cupra and çupra

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), the same root in the verb cupiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pra/, [ˈkʊprä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.pra/, [ˈkuːprä]

Proper noun

Cupra f sg (genitive Cuprae); first declension

epithet of Juno among Etruscans
A town in Picenum situated on the Adriatic coast

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cupra
Genitive	Cuprae
Dative	Cuprae
Accusative	Cupram
Ablative	Cuprā
Vocative	Cupra
Locative	Cuprae

References

“Cupra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Cupra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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