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Added 10 October 2026

cupula

noun

Latin root: cūpula Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about cupula at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation

Origin

Borrowed from Latin cūpula, from cūpa + -ula. Doublet of cupola. False cognate of English cupule in which English cup is descendant of Old English copp of Germanic origin.

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