coper

cope +‎ -er

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.

Related to Dutch koopen (“to buy”). Compare copeman.

• cooper

coper (plural copers)

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

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.

• Pecor, Poreč, crope

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔpər/, /ˈkɔːpər/

coper (uncountable)

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

• copren

• English: copper
  • → Maori: kapa
  • → Shona: kopa
• Scots: coper, copper
• → Cornish: kober
• → Irish: copar
• → Manx: cobbyr
• → Scottish Gaelic: copar
• → Welsh: copor

• “cō̆per, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

• copaïr (Guernsey)

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

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coper (gerund cop'sie)

1. (Jersey) to cut

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

• tailli

• colper
• couper

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.

coper

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

     La teste li eüst copee

     He cut off his head

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.

• cop/colp