Meaning

noun a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

noun the quantity a cup will hold

noun any cup-shaped concavity

originInherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”). Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel,…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0