different between cupola vs bicupola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin c?pula (“little tub”); from Latin c?pa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kju?p?l?/

Noun

cupola (plural cupolas or cupolae)

1. (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
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.
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
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.

Derived terms

• cupolaed
• cupolar

Translations

Further reading

• cupola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• (etymology) cupola in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• copula, coupla, pocula

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cupula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.po.la/
• Rhymes: -upola

Noun

cupola f (plural cupole)

1. dome, vault
2. cupola

Derived terms

• cupoletta

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: Chupple
• ? Bulgarian: ????? (kupol)
• ? Catalan: cúpula
• ? Czech: kopule, kupole
• ? Dutch: koepel
• ? English: cupola
  • ? Japanese: ????? (ky?pora)
  • ? Korean: ??? (kyupolla)
• ? French: coupole
  • ? Dutch: coupel, koupel
• ? German: Kuppel
• ? Hungarian: kupola
• ? Macedonian: ?????? (kupola)
• ? Polish: kopu?a
• ? Portuguese: cúpula
• ? Russian: ????? (kupol)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: kupola

• ? Slovak: kupola
• ? Spanish: cúpula

Anagrams

• copula

Further reading

• cupola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

bi- +? cupola

Noun

bicupola (plural bicupolas)

1. (mathematics) A solid formed from two cupolas joined at the base.

Italian

Noun

bicupola f (plural bicupole)

1. (mathematics) bicupola