cupas
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);
acc. pl.
Examples
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Ecce autem diductis lacunaribus subito circulus ingens, de cupa videlicet grandi excussus, demittitur, cuius per totum orbem coronae..."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..."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..."