cupola
Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːpələ/
The English word “cupola” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
- A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
- An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
- A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
- A type of furnace used for smelting.
- A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
- a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
- A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over. Doublet of cupula.
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