copeiz

Old French

Etymology

From presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).

Noun

copeiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural copeiz, nominative singular copeiz, nominative plural copeiz)

1. a cut-over woods

Related terms

• coper

Descendants

• → English: coppice

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (copeiz)