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coper

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.

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)

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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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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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Old French

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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.

    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 —
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