cuspis
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuspis (plural cuspes or cuspides)
- A point; a sharp end.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cuspis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
cuspis
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of cuspir
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown origin. Possibly from an earlier *kuri-spid-, a compound of curis (“Alternative form of quiris (“spear”)”) + a proto-Italic noun *spis (“lance”);[1] the latter would be from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), and related to Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina).[2] However, dvandva compounds are quite abnormal within Latin, in addition to curis possibly being from the same unknown origin as cuspis to begin with.[1]
Noun[edit]
cuspis f (genitive cuspidis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cuspis | cuspidēs |
| Genitive | cuspidis | cuspidum |
| Dative | cuspidī | cuspidibus |
| Accusative | cuspidem | cuspidēs |
| Ablative | cuspide | cuspidibus |
| Vocative | cuspis | cuspidēs |
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: cúspide
- Old French: coispel, cospel (through diminutive *cuspidellus)
- → Italian: cuspide
- → Portuguese: cúspide
- → Spanish: cúspide
- → English: cusp, cuspid
References[edit]
- “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cuspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
cuspis
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- Latin terms with unknown etymologies
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms