# cupola
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkjuːpələ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈkupələ/
* (US, dialectal) IPA: /ˈkjupəloʊ/ (see cupalo)

### Noun

cupola (plural cupolas or cupolae)
* (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
** 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
** 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts.
* (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
* (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
* (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.
* A type of furnace used for smelting.
** 2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails, →ISBN:The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material.
** 2009, S.K. Garg, Comprehensive Workshop Technology, →ISBN, page 260:Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals.
* (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
    the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule
** 1937, Sir Gavin De Beer, The Development of the Vertebrate Skull, page 180:From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior.
** 2015, Charles E. Smith, Trauma Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 85:The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7).
* (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.
* A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.

#### Derived terms

* bicupola
* cupolaed
* cupolar

#### Further reading

* cupola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ “cupola”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* copula, coupla, pocula

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cupula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.po.la/
* Rhymes: -upola
* Hyphenation: cù‧po‧la

### Noun

cupola f (plural cupole)
* (architecture) dome, vault
* cupola

#### Derived terms

* cupoletta

#### Descendants

* → Alemannic German: Chupple
* → Bulgarian: купол (kupol)
* → Catalan: cúpula
* → Czech: kopule, kupole
* → Dutch: koepel
* → English: cupola
** → Japanese: キューポラ (kyūpora)
** → Korean: 큐폴라 (kyupolla)
* → French: coupole
** → Dutch: coupel, koepel
* → German: Kuppel
* → Hungarian: kupola
* → Macedonian: купола (kupola)
* → Polish: kopuła
* → Portuguese: cúpula
* → Russian: купол (kupol)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: купола
    Latin script: kupola
* → Slovak: kupola
* → Spanish: cúpula

### Further reading

* cupola in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* cupola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* copula