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A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To refine or assay using a cupel.
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a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vessel
Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
քուրայ
(kʻuray)
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Catalan:
copel·la
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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French:
coupelle
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Galician:
copela
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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German:
Treibherd
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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German:
Probiertiegel
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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German:
Kupelle
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Ido:
kupelo
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Irish:
cupa
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Italian:
coppella
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Polish:
kupela
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Russian:
тиге́ль
(tigélʹ)
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Spanish:
copela
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Welsh:
ciwpel
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Welsh:
coethlestr
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Welsh:
llestr coethi
— a small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead
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Catalan:
copel·lar
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Galician:
copelar
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Ido:
kupelagar
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Italian:
coppellare
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Latin:
pustulatus
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Latin:
pusulatus
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Polish:
kupelować
— to refine by means of a cupel
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Welsh:
ciwpelu
— to refine by means of a cupel
