coppa

coppa

See also: COPPA and Coppa

English

Etymology

From Italian coppa (nape). Doublet of cup and coupe.

Noun

coppa (usually uncountable, plural coppas)

  1. capicola
    • 2009 February 1, Christine Muhlke, “Aging Gracefully”, in New York Times[1]:
      The silken-textured, nutty-sweet prosciutto is named on menus from A16 in San Francisco to Blackbird in Chicago, from Otto in Manhattan to Central Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. The La Quercia range, sold in Whole Foods, has expanded to include organic and heirloom prosciuttos, as well as lardo, pancetta, speck, coppa, guanciale and an annual Acorn Edition, in which subscribers pay $3,000 to receive all the parts of the prized acorn-fed organic Berkshire meat during the year, from fresh to cured.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.pa/
  • Audio (France (Toulouse)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Noun

coppa m (invariable)

  1. koppa (Greek letter)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔp.pa/, /ˈkop.pa/[1]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔppa, -oppa
  • Hyphenation: còp‧pa, cóp‧pa

Noun

coppa f (plural coppe)

  1. goblet
  2. (cooking) bowl
  3. cup (especially as a sporting trophy, often capitalised/capitalized)
  4. bra cup
  5. (in the plural) suit of some playing card
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȕpa / ку̏па

Etymology 2

Derived from the first etymology, due to the resemblance of the nape of the neck to the handle of a cup.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔp.pa/, /ˈkop.pa/[1]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔppa, -oppa
  • Hyphenation: còp‧pa, cóp‧pa

Noun

coppa f (plural coppe)

  1. (regional, literally) nape (of the neck)
  2. neck (pork cut)
  3. capicola
  4. (regional) large pork sausage

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόππα (kóppa), originally ϙόππα (qóppa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔp.pa/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔppa
  • Hyphenation: còp‧pa

Noun

coppa f (invariable)

  1. koppa (Greek letter)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔp.pa/, /ˈkop.pa/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔppa, -oppa
  • Hyphenation: còp‧pa, cóp‧pa

Verb

coppa

  1. inflection of coppare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 coppa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)