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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 )
< 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.
[Middle English Cupide, from Old French, from Latin cupīdō, desire, Cupid, from cupere, to desire.] |
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Cupid
Cu"pid\ (k?"p?d), n . [L. Cupido, fr. cupido desire, desire of love, fr. cupidus. See Cupidity.] (Rom. Myth.) The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. --Shak.
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Cupid
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.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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