Copula is a Latinate term meaning 'link' which may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* '' Beatmania IIDX 23: Copula'', a 2015 rhythm game * Copula (music), a polyphonic texture

Biology

* ''Copula'' (cnidarian), a genus of box jellyfish *

Copula linguae The copula linguae or copula, is a swelling that forms from the second pharyngeal arch, late in the fourth week of embryogenesis An embryo ( ) is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism. In organisms that reproduce sexua ...

, an embryonic structure of the tongue

Linguistics

Copula (linguistics) In linguistics, a copula (; : copulas or copulae; abbreviated ) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word ''is'' in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase ''was not being'' in t ...

, a word used to link subject and predicate **

Indo-European copula A feature common to all Indo-European languages is the presence of a verb corresponding to the English verb ''to be''. General features This verb has two basic meanings: *In a less marked context it is a simple copula (''I’m tired''; ''Th ...

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Romance copula In some of the Romance languages the copula, the equivalent of the verb ''to be'' in English, is relatively complex compared to its counterparts in other languages. A copula is a word that links the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a s ...

Mathematics

Copula (probability theory) In probability theory and statistics, a copula is a multivariate cumulative distribution function for which the marginal probability distribution of each variable is uniform on the interval , 1 Copulas are used to describe / model the ...

, a function linking marginal variables into a multivariate distribution ** Copulas in signal processing {{disambiguation