cupel

• copel, coppel (obsolete)

Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup +‎ -el.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːpəl/

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• Rhymes: -uːpəl

cupel (plural cupels)

1. A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.

• → Welsh: ciwpel

cupel (third-person singular simple present cupels, present participle (US) cupeling or (UK) cupelling, simple past and past participle (US) cupeled or (UK) cupelled)

1. To refine or assay using a cupel.

• cupellate

• culpe, pecul, pucel