copeiz
Old French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
copeiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural copeiz, nominative singular copeiz, nominative plural copeiz)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: coppice
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (copeiz)