Cupra

Possibly a borrowing from Osco-Umbrian, from Proto-Italic *kupros (“good”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”). If that is the case, it shares a root with the verb cupiō and the god Cupīdō. See *kupiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.pra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.pra]

Cupra f sg (genitive Cuprae); first declension

1. dea Cupra, an Italic goddess
   • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 8.432:

     quis litoreae fumant altaria Cuprae

     those for whom the seaside altars of Cupra smoke

2. Cupra Maritima, a town in Picenum situated on the Adriatic coast
3. Cupra Montana, a town in Picenum

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Cupra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cupra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Cupra, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cupiō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 155