The story
- Latin · derived fromcūpa“cask”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromcūpella
- French · borrowed fromcoupelle
- English todaycupel
Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.
Words from the same roots
Latincūpa all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.