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cupel

/ˈkjuːpəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cu-pel
IPA
/ˈkjuːpəl/
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.

verb

To refine or assay using a cupel.

Etymology

Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

cupels (plural) copel (alternative, obsolete) coppel (alternative, obsolete) cupels (present, singular) cupeling (US, participle) cupelling (UK, participle) cupeled (US, participle) cupeled (US, past) cupelled (UK, participle) cupelled (UK, past)

Derived Forms

cupelation cupellation cupellate cupeller

Phrases

cupel-dust

Synonyms

cupellate bone-ash cup refractory pot

Rhymes With

pupil quadruple tuple pupal quintuple scruple sextuple duple octuple centuple souple

Questions

How do you pronounce cupel?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkjuːpəl/.
What does cupel mean?
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
Where does cupel come from?
It is traced to French.

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