cup

Meanings

Noun

• A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
• The contents of said vessel.
• A customary unit of measure
• A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
• A contest for which a cup is awarded.
• The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
• A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
• Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
• A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
• One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
• The symbol $\backslash cup$ denoting union and similar operations.
• A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
• A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
• A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
• Anything shaped like a cup.
• A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
• That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.

Verb

• To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
• To hold something in cupped hands.
• To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
• To supply with cups of wine.
• To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
• To make concave or in the form of a cup.

Origin

• From Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe and Old English copp.
• Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp-. Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (whence also obsolete English cop, German Kopf).
• The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop, West Frisian kop, Dutch kop, German Low German Koppke, Köppke, Danish kop, Swedish kopp. coupe, and keeve.