different between cup vs caup

English

Etymology

From Middle English cuppe, coppe, from Old English cuppe (“cup”), from Late Latin cuppa, probably a form of Latin c?pa (“tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman cupe, from the same Latin source. Compare Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop, Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), German Kopf (“head; top”), Danish kop, Swedish kopp. Doublet of coupe and keeve.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?p, IPA^(key): /k?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

cup (plural cups)

1. A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.

   Coordinate terms: mug, pannikin

2. The contents of said vessel.

   Synonym: cupful

3. A customary unit of measure
   1. (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹?₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
   2. (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹?₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
   3. (Britain, dated) A British unit of measure equal to ¹?₂ imperial pints (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
4. A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.

5. A contest for which a cup is awarded.

6. (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
   • 2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books ?ISBN

     Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.

   • 2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn ?ISBN

     Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.

   • 2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn ?ISBN

     One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.

7. (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.

8. (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.

9. (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.

   Synonym: (UK) box

10. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
    1. Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
       • 2010, Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Books 1-6, page 1149:

         "For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once."

11. (mathematics) The symbol ${\displaystyle \cup }$ denoting union and similar operations.

    Coordinate term: cap

12. (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
13. (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
14. A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.

    Synonym: suction cup

15. Anything shaped like a cup.
    • 1745, William Shenstone, Elegy VIII

      The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.

16. (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
17. (figuratively) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Farefare: k?p?
• ? Hebrew: ???? (kap)
• ? Japanese: ??? (kappu)
• ? Korean: ? (keop)
• ? Maori: kapu

Translations

Verb

cup (third-person singular simple present cups, present participle cupping, simple past and past participle cupped)

1. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.

2. (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.

3. (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
5. (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
6. (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.

Translations

Further reading

• cup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CPU, P.U.C., PUC, Pcu, UPC

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *t?upa, from Proto-Indo-European *?uh?-po- (compare Sanskrit ??? (?ópha, “swelling”)), from *?uh?- (“to swell up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsup/

Adjective

cup m (feminine cupe)

1. odd (not even)

Synonyms

• tek

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of sup.

Noun

cup m (indefinite plural cupe, definite singular cupi, definite plural cupet)

1. shoulder

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin c?pus, a variant of c?pa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”).

Noun

cup m (plural cups)

1. winepress
2. cellar

Derived terms

• cubada
• cubell

Further reading

• “cup” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput. Compare Italian capo, Romanian cap, Spanish cabo.

Noun

cup m

1. head

Finnish

Etymology

From English cup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p/, [?k?p]
• Syllabification: cup

Noun

cup

1. cup (contest)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cup (“trophy”)

Noun

cup m (definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cuper, definite plural cupene)

1. (sports) cup (trophy; the competition culminating in the winning of the trophy)

Derived terms

• cupfinale
• verdenscup

Related terms

• pokal

References

• “cup” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cup (“trophy”)

Noun

cup m (definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cupar, definite plural cupane)

1. (sports) cup (as above)

Derived terms

• cupfinale

Related terms

• pokal

References

• “cup” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?p/, /kap/
• Rhymes: -?p, -ap

Noun

cup c

1. (sports) cup

Declension

References

• cup in Svensk ordbok (SO)

English

Noun

caup (plural caups)

1. (Scotland) Cup.

   On Tintock Tap there is a mist / And in the mist there is a kist / And in the kist there is a caup / And in the caup there is a drap / Tak' up the caup and drink the drap / And set the caup on Tintock Tap.

Anagrams

• A cup, A-cup, Cupa, Puac, pacu