cuspis

See also: cuspís

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cuspis.

Noun

cuspis (plural cuspes or cuspides)

  1. A point; a sharp end.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cuspis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Galician

Verb

cuspis

  1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of cuspir

Latin

Etymology

Unknown origin. Possibly from an earlier *kuri-spid-, a compound of curis (“Alternative form of quiris (“spear”)”) + a proto-Italic noun *spis (“lance”);[1] the latter would be from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), and related to Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina).[2] However, dvandva compounds are quite abnormal within Latin, in addition to curis possibly being from the same unknown origin as cuspis to begin with.[1]

Noun

cuspis f (genitive cuspidis); third declension

  1. point, tip (of a pointed object)
  2. spit (for cooking)
  3. sting (of an insect etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuspis cuspidēs
Genitive cuspidis cuspidum
Dative cuspidī cuspidibus
Accusative cuspidem cuspidēs
Ablative cuspide cuspidibus
Vocative cuspis cuspidēs

Descendants
  • → Catalan: cúspide
  • Old French: coispel, cospel (through diminutive *cuspidellus)
    • Middle French: cospel, cospeau
    • Norman: coîpel, couêpé
    • Picard: coêpieu (Picardie), coîpiau (Picardie)
    • → Catalan: cospell
    • → Spanish: cospel
  • → Italian: cuspide
  • → Portuguese: cúspide
  • → Spanish: cúspide
  • → English: cusp, cuspid

References
  • “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cuspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159
  2. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

cuspis

  1. second-person plural present indicative of cuspir
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