cuppedo

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, cuppēs (“having a taste for delicacies”) +‎ -ēdō. But it may be an alternative form of cupīdō (“desire”) which took on a distinct meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kupˈpeː.doː/, [kʊpˈpeːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kupˈpe.do/, [kupˈpɛːd̪o]

Noun

cuppēdō f (genitive cuppēdinis); third declension

1. a tidbit, delicacy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cuppēdō	cuppēdinēs
genitive	cuppēdinis	cuppēdinum
dative	cuppēdinī	cuppēdinibus
accusative	cuppēdinem	cuppēdinēs
ablative	cuppēdine	cuppēdinibus
vocative	cuppēdō	cuppēdinēs

References

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