cooperculum

cooperculum

Latin

Etymology

From cooperiō (“to cover”) +‎ -culum. See also operculum.

Noun

cooperculum n (genitive cooperculī); second declension

1. lid, cover

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cooperculum	coopercula
Genitive	cooperculī	cooperculōrum
Dative	cooperculō	cooperculīs
Accusative	cooperculum	coopercula
Ablative	cooperculō	cooperculīs
Vocative	cooperculum	coopercula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: coperchio
  • Sicilian: cuverchiu, cuperchiu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: cuèrcc
  • Friulian: cuviercli
  • Ligurian: covèrcio, coèrcio
  • Lombard: cuèrcc
  • Piedmontese: cuèrcc, cuvercc, ciuèrc
  • Romagnol: cuércc, cuérce
  • Venetian: covercio, coercio, cuercio
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: cuvèrcllo
  • Old French: covercle
    • French: couvercle
    • → Middle English: covercle
      • English: covercle
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: copérciu, copercu, covecu, cobecu, cobercu, cropecu, cuprecu
• Vulgar Latin: *coopercellum
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: cobrecel (influenced by cel)
      • Catalan: cobricel
    • Old Occitan: cobercel, cobrecel
      • ⇒ Languedocien: cabucèla
      • Provençal: curbecèu
      • Vivaro-Alpine: cuberceu

References

• “cooperculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cooperculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• cooperculum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016