Cupa

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Surrounding structure or vessel used to hold liquids or materials
2. a cup-shaped object often associated with drinking or serving
3. a term referencing a concave or hollow formation in various scientific contexts

Etymology: Cupeño is a Uto-Aztecan language of southern California, and English borrowed this term from it. Its English sense, a hollow, cup-shaped part, keeps the image of a cup, though the borrowing itself gives no record of how the Cupeño term was first applied. The English word's own history is a short one, and it is the source language that gives it its distinctive shape.

Synonyms: cup, mug, goblet, chalice, glass