cuppedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• cūpēdia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cuppēs

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin cuppēdia

From cuppēs (oblique stem in cuppēd-) + -ia. Compare cuppēdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊpˈpeː.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kupˈpɛː.di.a]

Noun

cuppēdia f (genitive cuppēdiae); first declension

1. a taste for delicacies
2. (in the plural) delicacies

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cuppēdia	cuppēdiae
genitive	cuppēdiae	cuppēdiārum
dative	cuppēdiae	cuppēdiīs
accusative	cuppēdiam	cuppēdiās
ablative	cuppēdiā	cuppēdiīs
vocative	cuppēdia	cuppēdiae

References

• “cuppedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cuppedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers