Cupertino

English

Etymology

Named after Joseph of Cupertino, from Italian Copertino.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkuːpəɹˈtiːnoʊ/

Proper noun

Cupertino

  1. A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
  2. (metonymic) Apple Inc.
    • 2025 June 24, Anuj Bhatia, “Why both Apple and Meta are interested in buying Perplexity AI”, in Indian Express‎[1]:
      A major difference between Apple and other companies in bringing AI to the masses is that Cupertino is more open to partnerships—such as the one it has with OpenAI. The idea is that Apple will combine its own machine learning models with generative AI technologies from partners to power features within Apple Intelligence.

Noun

Cupertino (plural Cupertinos)

  1. (informal, uncommon) An incorrect spellchecking suggestion due to the Cupertino effect.
    Coordinate term: clbuttic
    • 2007 November 1, Ben Zimmer, “When Spellcheckers Attack: Perils of the Cupertino Effect”, in OUPBlog‎[2]:
      Sure enough, there are dozens of Cupertinos to be found in online documents from the UN, EU, NATO, and other international organizations.
    • 2013, Tom Chatfield, chapter 20, in Netymology, →ISBN:
      Cupertinos can also be a serious business. Consider the case in 2012 of a school in the state of Georgia which was evacuated after a text message reading ‘gunman be at west hall today’ was reported to police.

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