different between cupola vs oculus

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

Borrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k.j?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k.j?l.?s/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?s

Noun

oculus (plural oculi)

1. (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
   1. The central boss of a volute.
   2. An opening at the apex of a dome.

Translations

References

• “oculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “oculus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Alternative forms

• oclus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ok?elos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ók?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”), probably through a later root *?k?elos. Cognates include Sanskrit ????? (ák?i), Ancient Greek ???? (ósse), Gothic ???????????????? (aug?), Old English ?a?e (English eye), Proto-Slavic *oko.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.ku.lus/, [??k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.ku.lus/, [???kulus]

Noun

oculus m (genitive ocul?); second declension

1. (literally, anatomy) eye

   Synonym: (Ecclesiastical Latin) palpebra
2. (transferred sense):
   1. sight, vision
   2. (poetic, literary) luminary of the sun and stars
   3. spot resembling an eye, such as on a peacock feather
   4. (botany):
      1. eye, bud, bourgeon
      2. bud, bulb or knob on many roots, on the reed, etc.
      3. great houseleek

         Synonym: aiz?um majus

3. (figuratively):
   1. principal ornament
   2. eye of the soul, mind's eye

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ocul?ri?rius
• ocul?re
• ocul?riter
• ocul?ta

Descendants

(See oclus for inherited Romance descendants)

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ocul?ri?rius
• ocul?re
• ocul?riter
• ocul?ta

Descendants

(See oclus for inherited Romance descendants)

References

• oculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• oculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• oculus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]