cuppaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Contraction of cup of (with “tea” または sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌpə/
• 韻: -ʌpə

名詞

cuppa (複数形 cuppas)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cup of tea (または sometimes any hot drink).

   I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:

     […] we covered the hundred yards to the lawn where the tea table awaited us. […] Only Bobbie was present when we arrived at the trough. Wilbert and Phyllis were presumably still in the leafy glade, and Mrs Cream, Bobbie said, worked in her room every afternoon on her new spine-freezer and seldom knocked off for a cuppa.

   • 1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd.,

     Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine.

   • 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 35:

     ‘Here,’ said Clancy as he sat up and dangled his legs over the edge of the bed, ‘You sit down and take it easy. I′ll boil the billy for a cuppa’.

   • 2017 Mrs. S. "Guillotines Decide" Orphan Black

     Get Kira up. I'll pour you a cuppa.

2. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
   • 2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer, page 210:

     Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune.

3. Pronunciation spelling of cup of.
   • 1940, The New Yorker, Volume 16, Part 1, page 22:

     And he orders a cuppa cawfee. “A cuppa cawfee and what else?” I says to him.

   • 1997, Sinclair Lewis, edited by Anthony Di Renzo, Commutation: $9.17: If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis:

     I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so; […] and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!

   • 2008, Frank Deford, The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, "cuppa"&hl=en&sa=X page 204]:

     “That′s a new line, isn′t it? Come up to my suite for a cuppa coffee.”

派生語

• cuppa joe

アナグラム

• cap up

Latin

語源

Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From Classical Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, vat”). Possibly influenced by Frankish *kopp (“bowl, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, bowl, vessel”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkup.pa/, [ˈkʊpːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkup.pa/, [ˈkupːä]

名詞

cuppa f (genitive cuppae); first declension

1. drinking vessel
2. barrel, cask
3. axle
4. bar of an oil press

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: cupã
  • Romanian: cupă
• Italian: coppa
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ку̏па

    Latin script: kȕpa

• Old French: cope, cupe
  • French: coupe
    • → English: coupe
  • Norman: coupe
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: copa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: copa
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: copa, copo
    • → Japanese: コップ (koppu)
    • → Kadiwéu: goopa
    • → Swahili: kopo
• Old Spanish: copa
  • Spanish: copa
    • → Basque: kopa
    • → O'odham: ko꞉ba
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cope
• → Albanian: kupë
• → Ancient Greek: κοῦπα (koûpa)
  • Byzantine Greek: κούπα (koúpa)
    • Greek: κούπα (koúpa)
    • → Aramaic:

      Hebrew script: כובא‎ (kūbā)

      Syriac script: ܟܘܒܐ‎ (kūbā)

      • → Arabic: كُوب‎ (kūb)
        • Hijazi Arabic: كوب‎ (kūb, kōb)
• → Old English: cuppe
  • Middle English: cuppe, coppe
    • English: cup
      • → Farefare: kɔpɩ
      • → Hebrew: קאפ‎ (kap)
      • → Japanese: カップ (kappu)
      • → Korean: 컵 (keop)
      • → Maori: kapu
    • Scots: cuppe, capp, cap, caup, kap
    • → Middle Irish: cupa
      • Irish: cupa
      • Scottish Gaelic: cupa
  • → Welsh: cwpan
• → Old Irish: cuppán
  • Irish: cupán
• → Old High German: kupfa, kupha, kuppa
  • Middle High German: kupfe
    • German: Kuppe
    • Luxembourgish: Kopp

Many descendants of Proto-Germanic *kuppaz have conflated with this word. See there for more.

参照

• cuppa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)