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Cu⋅pid

[kyoo-pid]
–noun
1. Also called Amor. the ancient Roman god of love and the son of either Mars or Mercury and Venus, identified with Eros and commonly represented as a winged, naked, infant boy with a bow and arrows.
2. (lowercase) a similar winged being, or a representation of one, esp. as symbolic of love.

Origin:
< L Cupīdō Cupid, the personification of cupīdō desire, love, equiv. to cup(ere) to long for, desire + -īdō n. suffix (cf. libido )
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Cu·pid   (kyōō'pĭd)   
n.  
  1. Roman Mythology The god of love; the son of Venus.

  2. cupid A representation of Cupid as a naked cherubic boy usually having wings and holding a bow and arrow, used as a symbol of love.


[Middle English Cupide, from Old French, from Latin cupīdō, desire, Cupid, from cupere, to desire.]
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CUPID
A graphic query language.
["CUPID: A Graphic Oriented Facility for Support of Nonprogrammer Interactions with a Database", N. McDonald, PhD Thesis, CS Dept, UC Berkeley 1975].

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