cuspis
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cuspis (plural cuspes)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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