crapula

From Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹapjʊlə/

crapula (plural crapulas)

1. (obsolete) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
   • 1726, Peter Shaw, A New Practice of Physic:

     If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]

   • 1794, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations. Second American edition:

     Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed.

   • 1808, Thomas Topham, A new compendious system on several diseases incident to cattle:

     Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkra.pu.la/
• Stress: cràpula
• Hyphenation: cra‧pu‧la

Borrowed from Latin crāpula (“excessive drinking”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē).

crapula f (plural crapule)

1. (literary) Excessive eating and drinking; gluttony

   Synonym: gozzoviglia

• crapulone

• crapulare
• crapuloso

See the etymology of the main entry.

crapula

1. third-person singular present indicative of crapulare

• crapula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkraː.pu.la/, [ˈkraː.pʊ.ɫa]

crāpula f (genitive crāpulae); first declension

1. excessive drinking, drunkenness, inebriation, intoxication

First declension.

• English: crapula
• French: crapule
• Finnish: krapula
• Italian: crapula
• Portuguese: crápula
• Romanian: crapulare
• Spanish: crápula

• crapula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crapula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crapula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• crapula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette