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cupola

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English

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A cupola atop Cardiff's city hall
Basic cupola furnace

Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over.[1]

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Noun

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cupola (plural cupolas or cupolae)

  1. (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
      the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:
      The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts.
  2. (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
  3. (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
  4. (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.
  5. A type of furnace used for smelting.
    • 2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails, →ISBN:
      The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material.
    • 2009, S.K. Garg, Comprehensive Workshop Technology, →ISBN, page 260:
      Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals.
  6. (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
    the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule
    • 1937, Sir Gavin De Beer, The Development of the Vertebrate Skull, page 180:
      From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior.
    • 2015, Charles E. Smith, Trauma Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 85:
      The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7).
  7. (railways, Canada, dated) 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.

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Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ “cupola”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

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From Latin cupula.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈku.po.la/
  • Rhymes: -upola
  • Hyphenation: cù‧po‧la

Noun

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cupola f (plural cupole)

  1. (architecture) dome, vault
  2. cupola

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Further reading

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  • cupola in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • cupola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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