cupel

English

Alternative forms

• copel, coppel (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːpəl/

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Noun

cupel (plural cupels)

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

Derived terms

• cupelation
• cupel-dust
• cupellate
• cupellation

Descendants

• → Welsh: ciwpel

Translations

a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead

Armenian: քուրայ (kʻuray) Catalan: copel·la (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can French: coupelle (fr) f Galician: copela (gl) f German: Treibherd m, Probiertiegel m, Kupelle f Ido: kupelo (io) Irish: cupa m Italian: coppella (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Polish: kupela f Russian: тиге́ль (ru) m (tigélʹ) Spanish: copela (es) f Welsh: ciwpel m, coethlestr m, llestr coethi m

Verb

cupel (third-person singular simple present cupels, present participle cupelling or cupeling, simple past and past participle cupelled or cupeled)

1. To refine or assay using a cupel.

Synonyms

• cupellate

Derived terms

• cupeller

Translations

to refine by means of a cupel

Catalan: copel·lar (ca) Galician: copelar (gl) Ido: kupelagar (io) Italian: coppellare (it) Latin: pustulatus, pusulatus (adjective) Polish: kupelować impf Welsh: ciwpelu

Anagrams

• culpe, pecul, pucel