Daily Ancestorcaupo
Caupo is Latin for an innkeeper or tavern keeper, a man who kept a public house where travelers ate, drank and lodged.
Caupo means innkeeper or tavern keeper, and in classical Latin also a small shopkeeper. The word appears in registers for the man who ran the village inn.
Taberna, a shop, inn or tavern, is a related word you may see for the inn itself. Dictionaries also record the spellings copo and cupo, so search for all of them in an index.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Bavaria, 1770s
Joannes Wirth, caupo in pago, patrinus
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