coper

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See also: côper

English

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Etymology 1

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From cope +‎ -er.

Noun

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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.
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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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coper (plural copers)

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

Verb

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

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

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Middle English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔpər/, /ˈkɔːpər/

Noun

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coper (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: copper
  • Scots: coper, copper
  • Cornish: kober
  • Irish: copar
  • Manx: cobbyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: copar
  • Welsh: copor

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Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Jersey):(file)

Verb

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coper (gerund cop'sie)

  1. (Jersey) to cut

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See also

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Old English

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Noun

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coper n

  1. Alternative form of copor

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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coper

  1. to cut

Conjugation

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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.

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Descendants

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