[kyoo-pid] 
| 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. |
| Cu·pid (kyōō'pĭd) n.
[Middle English Cupide, from Old French, from Latin cupīdō, desire, Cupid, from cupere, to desire.] |
The Roman name of Eros, the god of love. In the story of Cupid and Psyche, he is described as a magnificently handsome young man. In many stories, he is called the son of Venus.
Note: In art, Cupid is often depicted as a chubby, winged infant who shoots arrows at people to make them fall in love. He is also sometimes shown as blind or blindfolded.
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].
