Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/kupros

This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kuprós, whence also Proto-Celtic *kubros (“desired, desiring”).^[1] The root is *kwep- (“to boil”).

Adjective

*kupros^[2]

good
Synonym: *dwenos

Declension

Declension of *kupros (o/ā-stem)
singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	*kupros	*kuprā	*kuprom
vocative	*kupre	*kupra	*kuprom
accusative	*kuprom	*kupram	*kuprom
genitive	*kuprosjo, kuprī	*kuprās	*kuprosjo, kuprī
dative	*kuprōi	*kuprāi	*kuprōi
ablative	*kuprōd	*kuprād	*kuprōd
locative	*kuprei	*kuprāi	*kuprei

plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	*kuprōs, kuproi	*kuprās	*kuprā
vocative	*kuprōs, kuproi	*kuprās	*kuprā
accusative	*kuprons	*kuprans	*kuprā
genitive	*kuprom	*kuprāzōm	*kuprom
dative	*kuprois	*kuprais	*kuprois
ablative	*kuprois	*kuprais	*kuprois
locative	*kuprois	*kuprais	*kuprois

Related terms

*kupiō

Descendants

→⇒ Ancient Greek: Κυπάρα (Kupára) (probably borrowed from Sicel)
→? Etruscan: 𐌊𐌖𐌐𐌖𐌓𐌄 (kupure)
→⇒ Latin: Cupra (possibly borrowed from Sabellic)
⇒ Latin: Cupronius
Sabine: ciprum
⇒ South Picene: 𐌊𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌝 (kuprí), 𐌒𐌖𐌐𐌝𐌓𐌝𐌇 (qupíríh, “well”) (adverb in *-ēd)
Umbrian: 𐌂𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌀𐌔 (cupras), cubrar (gen. sg. f.)
⇒ Venetic: 𐌊𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌉𐌊𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏 (kuprikonio)

References

^ 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
^ Prósper, Blanca María; Medrano Duque, Marcos (2022), “Ancient Gaulish and British Divinities: Notes on the Reconstruction of Celtic Phonology and Morphology”, in Вопросы ономастики‎^[1], volume 19, number 2, Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta, →DOI, →ISSN, page 27 of 9-47: “The Italic adjective *kup-ro-”

[1] 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

[2] Prósper, Blanca María; Medrano Duque, Marcos (2022), “Ancient Gaulish and British Divinities: Notes on the Reconstruction of Celtic Phonology and Morphology”, in Вопросы ономастики‎^[1], volume 19, number 2, Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta, →DOI, →ISSN, page 27 of 9-47: “The Italic adjective *kup-ro-”

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