cupola
English
/ˈkjuːpələ/
noun
Definitions
- (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
- (military) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
- (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
- (geometry) A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
- A type of furnace used for smelting.
- (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
- (railways) a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cupola (dome, cupola) derived from Latin cūpula (little tub), cūpa (tub, cask, vat, tun).
Origin
Latin
cūpa
Gloss
tub, cask, vat, tun
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicupola English
- cupolaed English
- cupolar English
- orthobicupola English
- cuppa Latin
- cupula Latin
- cūpa Latin
- cūpula Latin
- Kuppel German
- kupa Hungarian
- astrocupola Italian
- cupo Italian
- cupola Italian
- cupolone Italian
- pseudocupola Italian
- koepel Dutch, Flemish
- coupole French
- cúpula Spanish, Castilian
- *keup- Proto-Indo-European
- *kewp- Proto-Indo-European
- cúpula Portuguese
- kuppel Danish
- cuve Old French
- κούπα Greek (modern)
- kubilo Old High German
- cuba Old Portuguese
- kupola Slovak
- Chupple Alemannic German
- cūpella ML