coper
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
coper (plural copers)
- 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 edit
Related to Dutch koopen (“to buy”). Compare copeman.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
coper (plural copers)
Verb edit
coper (third-person singular simple present copers, present participle copering, simple past and past participle copered)
- (British) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English copor, from Proto-West Germanic *kop(p)r; from Late Latin cuprum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coper (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: copper
- Scots: coper, copper
- → Cornish: kober
- → Irish: copar
- → Manx: cobbyr
- → Scottish Gaelic: copar
- → Welsh: copor
References edit
- “cō̆per, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
- copaïr (Guernsey)
Etymology edit
From Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp, from Vulgar Latin *colpus (“stroke”), from Latin colaphus.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Verb edit
coper (gerund cop'sie)
Derived terms edit
- cope-gorge (“straight razor”)
- copeux dé g'veux (“hairdresser”)
See also edit
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
coper
- to cut
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- La teste li eüst copee
- He cut off his head
Conjugation edit
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.
simple | compound | ||||||
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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 | — |