coper

See also: côper

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Old French couperder.

English cope

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English coper

From cope + -er.

Noun

coper (plural copers)

1. One who copes.
   • 2001, Lawrence C. R. Snyder, Coping with Stress, page 244:

     And people who were adaptive copers early in life are likely to cope successfully with the losses that they encounter late in life.

Derived terms

• noncoper

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: sobrellevador m, aguantador (es) m

Etymology 2

Related to Dutch kopen (“to buy”), German Low German kopen (“to buy”). Compare copeman.

Alternative forms

• cooper

Noun

coper (plural copers)

1. (UK) A floating grogshop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.

Verb

coper (third-person singular simple present copers, present participle copering, simple past and past participle copered)

1. (UK) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.

Etymology 3

Noun

coper (plural copers)

1. Alternative form of couper (“a dealer in animals”).

Anagrams

• Pecor, Poreč, crope

Middle English

Alternative forms

• copre, copyr, copper, coppur, copir, copur, copr, koper

Etymology

Inherited from Old English copor, coper, from Proto-West Germanic *kopr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔpər/, /ˈkɔːpər/

Noun

coper (uncountable)

1. copper (element and metal)
2. bronze (alloy containing copper)

Derived terms

• copren

Descendants

• English: copper
  • Sranan Tongo: kapa
  • → Māori: kapa
  • → Shona: kopa
• Scots: coper, copper
• → Cornish: kober
• → Irish: copar
• → Manx: cobbyr
• → Scottish Gaelic: copar
• → Welsh: copr

References

• “cō̆per, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 July 2018.

Norman

Alternative forms

• copaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp, from Vulgar Latin *colpus (“stroke”), from Latin colaphus.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Verb

coper (gerund cop'sie)

1. (Jersey) to cut
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 544:

     Cope le cô.

     Cut the throat.

Derived terms

• cope-gorge (“straight razor”)
• copeux dé g'veux (“hairdresser”)

See also

• tailli

Old English

Noun

coper n

1. alternative form of copor

Old French

Alternative forms

• colper, couper

Etymology

From cop +‎ -er, with cop deriving from Vulgar Latin *colpus, from colaphus. Generally said to be from an earlier colper, corresponding to a Vulgar Latin verb *colpāre (related to Early Medieval Latin colpus), syncopated form of *colaphāre, from Latin colaphus. Compare Old Spanish golpar, colpar, Old Galician-Portuguese golpar, golbar, Old Occitan colpar, copar.

Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppāre (“to behead”), from caput (“head”), although this is unlikely.

Verb

coper

1. to cut
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     La teste li eüst copee

     He cut off his head

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ps, *-pt are modified to s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of coper (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		coper			avoir copé
gerund		en copant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		copant
past participle		copé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	cop	copes	cope	copons	copez	copent
	imperfect	copoie, copeie, copoe, copeve	copoies, copeies, copoes, copeves	copoit, copeit, copot, copeve	copiiens, copiens	copiiez, copiez	copoient, copeient, copoent, copevent
	preterite	copai	copas	copa	copames	copastes	coperent
	future	coperai	coperas	copera	coperons	coperoiz, copereiz, coperez	coperont
	conditional	coperoie, copereie	coperoies, copereies	coperoit, copereit	coperiiens, coperiens	coperiiez, coperiez	coperoient, copereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	cop	cos	cot	copons	copez	copent
	imperfect	copasse	copasses	copast	copissons, copissiens	copissoiz, copissez, copissiez	copassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	cope	—	copons	copez	—

Related terms

• cop / colp

Descendants

• French: couper
• Norman: copaïr (Guernsey), coper (Jersey)
• Walloon: côper