cuspis

Borrowed from Latin cuspis. Doublet of cusp and cuspid.

cuspis (plural cuspes or cuspides)

1. A point; a sharp end.

• “cuspis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

cuspis

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of cuspir

Unknown origin. Possibly from an earlier *kuri-spid-, a compound of curis (“alternative form of quiris (“spear”)”) + a Proto-Italic noun *spis (“lance”);^[1] the latter would be from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), and related to Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina).^[2] However, dvandva compounds are quite abnormal within Latin, in addition to curis possibly being from the same unknown origin as cuspis to begin with.^[1]

cuspis f (genitive cuspidis); third declension

1. point, tip (of a pointed object)
2. spit (for cooking)
3. sting (of an insect etc.)

Third-declension noun.

• cuspidō

• → Catalan: cúspide
• Old French: coispel, cospel (through diminutive *cuspidellus)
  • Middle French: cospel, cospeau
    • French: copeau
  • Norman: coîpel, couêpé
  • Picard: coêpieu (Picardie), coîpiau (Picardie)
  • → Catalan: cospell
  • → Spanish: cospel
• → Italian: cuspide
• → Portuguese: cúspide
• → Spanish: cúspide
• → English: cusp, cuspid

• “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cuspis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuspis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

cuspis

1. second-person plural present indicative of cuspir