different between coper vs cower

English

Etymology 1

cope +? -er

Noun

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

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

Alternative forms

• cooper

Noun

coper (plural copers)

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

Verb

coper (third-person singular simple present copers, present participle copering, simple past and past participle copered)

1. (Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.

Anagrams

• Pecor, Pore?, crope

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old English copor, from Proto-Germanic *kupr?; from Late Latin cuprum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p?r/, /?k??p?r/

Noun

coper (uncountable)

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

Descendants

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

References

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

Norman

Alternative forms

• copaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

coper (gerund cop'sie)

1. (Jersey) to cut

Derived terms

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

See also

• tailli

Old French

Alternative forms

• colper
• couper

Etymology

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 *colp?re (related to Early Medieval Latin colpus), syncopated form of *colaph?re, from Latin colaphus. Compare Old Spanish golpar, colpar, Old Portuguese golpar, golbar, Old Occitan colpar, copar.

Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *cupp?re (“to behead”), from caput (“head”), although this is unlikely.

Verb

coper

1. to cut

Conjugation

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.

Related terms

• cop/colp

Descendants

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cowre, couren, curen, from Middle Low German kûren (“to lie in wait; linger”) or from North Germanic (Icelandic kúra (“to doze”)). Cognate with German kauern (“to squat”), Dutch koeren (“to keep watch (in a cowered position)”), Serbo-Croatian kutriti (“to lie in a bent position”). Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.

   He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

   • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:

     Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:

     Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
     May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The mother bird had mov’d not,
     But cowering o’er her nestlings,
     Sate confident and fearless,
     And watch’d the wonted guest.

3. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

Translations

See also

• coward
• cowardice

Etymology 2

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Anagrams

• Crowe