Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From German Kappus (cabbage), with the first -u- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian kapuc, kapus (from Venetian capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (mixed).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kǔpus/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧pus

Noun edit

kùpus m (Cyrillic spelling ку̀пус)

  1. cabbage

Declension edit

References edit

  • kupus” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993), “kupus”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 360