cupa
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cupa, cupae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
dancing-girl; female tavern-keeper and castanet-dancer (L+S); female vintner;; bar of an oil press (axle for millstones); axle; crooked handle (L+S);; barrel, cask, vat, tun; (esp. for wine); niche in a columbarium (for ashes);
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...insolito contexunt robora ductu.namque ratem uacuae sustentant undique cupae 420quarum porrectis series constricta catenisordinibus geminis obliquas excipit alnos..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Ecce autem diductis lacunaribus subito circulus ingens, de cupa videlicet grandi excussus, demittitur, cuius per totum orbem coronae..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...hostium multitudo siti consumebatur. Quo malo perterriti oppidani cupas sebo, pice, scandulis complent; eas ardentes in opera provolvunt..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...fastigio musculi elabitur. Id ubi vident, mutant consilium: cupas taeda ac pice refertas incendunt easque de muro..."