cuppes

Latin

Etymology

From cupiō (“to desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkup.peːs/, [ˈkʊpːeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkup.pes/, [ˈkupːes]

Noun

cuppēs m (genitive cuppēdis); third declension

1. (hapax) sweet tooth, glutton, one with a taste for delicacies
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 240:

     numquam Ámor quemquam nisi cúpidum hominem / postulát se in plagas conícere: / eos cúpit, eos consectátur; / súbdole blanditur ab re cónsulit, / blandíloquentulus, harpagó, mendax, / cuppés, avarus, élegans, despoliator / latebrícolarum hominum córruptor, / [blandus] inops célatum indagátor. / nam quí amat quod amat quom éxtemplo / saviís sagittatis pérculsust, / ílico rés foras lábitur, líquitur.

     Love never expects any but the willing man to throw himself in his toils; these he seeks for, these he follows up, and craftily counsels against their interests. He is a fawning flatterer, a rapacious grappler, a deceiver, a sweet-tooth, a spoiler, a corrupter of men who court retirement, a pryer into secrets. For he that is in love, soon as ever he has been smitten with the kisses of the object that he loves, forthwith his substance vanishes out of doors and melts away.― The Comedies of Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley. London. G. Bell and Sons. 1912. Perseus

Usage notes

The masculine nominative singular form cuppēs occurs in Plautus' Trinummus as part of a list of negative nouns and adjectives describing love. Based on related words, the stem is inferred to be cuppēd-. The word could be a third-declension masculine noun or an adjective.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cuppēs	cuppēdēs
Genitive	cuppēdis	cuppēdum
Dative	cuppēdī	cuppēdibus
Accusative	cuppēdem	cuppēdēs
Ablative	cuppēde	cuppēdibus
Vocative	cuppēs	cuppēdēs

Derived terms

• cuppēdia
• cuppēdinārius
• cuppēdō

References

• “cuppes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuppes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• cuppes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)