kupadlo

Old Czech

Alternative forms

• kupadło (alternative writing)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kǫpadlo. By surface analysis, kúpati +‎ -dlo. For sense 4 compare Old East Slavic кѫпалиꙗ (kǫpalija, “Saint John's Eve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈkupadɫo/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈkupadlo/

Noun

kupadlo n

1. bathing place
2. bowl especially for ritual washing, basin, baptismal font
3. means of ritual purification
5. ribbon given as a gift on the eve of certain holidays
6. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. (botany) lady's mantle

Declension

Declension of kupadlo (hard o-stem reducible)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	kupadlo	kupadle	kupadla
genitive	kupadla	kupadlú	kupadel
dative	kupadlu	kupadloma	kupadlóm
accusative	kupadlo	kupadle	kupadla
vocative	kupadlo	kupadle	kupadla
locative	kupadle, kupadlu	kupadlú	kupadléch
instrumental	kupadlem	kupadloma	kupadly

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

• Czech: kupadlo, koupadlo

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “kupadlo”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění