coupé

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé (an elliptical form of carosse coupé (“cut carriage”)), the past participle of couper (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈpeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

coupé (countable and uncountable, plural coupés)

1. A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)
2. (British) A car with a fixed-roof body style that is shorter than a sedan or saloon of the same model.
3. (historical) The front part of a French stagecoach.
4. (historical) A four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside, and a separate seat for the driver.
5. (historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.
6. (uncountable) The strongest grade of Spanish saffron, akin to the Iranian sargol.

• convertible
• hardtop
• soft top

• coupé de ville
• coupé utility
• drophead coupé
• fixed head coupé

coupé (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, obsolete) Couped.
   • 1826, Sir Henry Chauncy, The Historical Antiquities of Hertforshire, page 314:

     [...] who was knighted : His Arms were Or, three Barrs Azure on a Canton Argent, a Lyon's Head coupé Gules;

   • 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 82:

     Grant of Arms and Crest from Hervy Clarenceux : Sablés, a chevron engrayled betwene three bezants, on a chief gold a rose gules between two flower de luces azure. Crest, a horsse head coupé golde pelletey betwene two winges barrey […]

   • 1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 117:

     Fig. 34, Argent, a baton sinister, coupé, gules (the mark of illegitimate descent).

• This is a false friend: in French heraldry, coupé means party per fess.

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkupeː/, [ˈkupe̞ː]

coupé

1. coupé

• “coupé”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /ku.pe/

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coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)

1. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess; said of an escutcheon

coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)

1. past participle of couper

• coupé-décalé

coupé m (plural coupés)

1. coupé (car)

• → Catalan: cupè
• → English: coupé
• → German: Coupé
• → Macedonian: купе (kupe)
• → Russian: купе́ (kupé)
• → Spanish: cupé
• → Ukrainian: купе́ (kupé)

• coupé-cabriolet

• “coupé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pouce

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈpe/^**, /kuˈpɛ/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -e, -ɛ

coupé m

1. coupé

From French couper (“to cut”).

coupé

1. to cut

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

• cupé

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈpe/ [kuˈpe]

coupé m (plural coupés)

1. coupé

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.