Cupido
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Cupido m (proper noun, strong, genitive Cupidos)
- (Roman mythology, poetic) Cupid
- Synonym: Amor
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Hexenküche”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One][1]:
- Den edlen Müßiggang lehr ich hernach dich schätzen, / Und bald empfindest du mit innigem Ergetzen, / Wie sich Cupido regt und hin und wider springt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
Declension of Cupido [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Further reading edit
- “Cupido” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Personification of cupīdō (“desire, longing”), with a change in gender to masculine.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuˈpiː.doː/, [kʊˈpiːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈpi.do/, [kuˈpiːd̪o]
audio (modern italianate) (file)
Proper noun edit
Cupīdō m (genitive Cupīdinis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Cupīdō | Cupīdinēs |
Genitive | Cupīdinis | Cupīdinum |
Dative | Cupīdinī | Cupīdinibus |
Accusative | Cupīdinem | Cupīdinēs |
Ablative | Cupīdine | Cupīdinibus |
Vocative | Cupīdō | Cupīdinēs |
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin Cupīdō (“Cupid, the god of love”), from cupere (“to desire, to long for”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Cu‧pi‧do
Proper noun edit
Cupido m
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Cupido m
- Cupid (god of love, son of Venus)
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Proper noun edit
Cupido c (genitive Cupidos)