different between copse vs coppe

English

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ps/
• Rhymes: -?ps
• Homophone: cops

Noun

copse (plural copses)

1. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
   • 1578, Rembert Dodoens (author) and Henry Lyte (translator), A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes page 57:

     Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):

     The day is come when I again repose

     Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

     These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

     Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

     Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

     ’Mid groves and copses.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

     Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

Synonyms

• coppice

Translations

See also

• bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard
• stand, thicket, wood, woods

Verb

copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)

1. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Copse”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 977, column 1.

Anagrams

• -scope, OPSEC, Pecos, copes, scope, ?-scope, ?scope

English

Etymology

From Old English [Term?], primarily occurring in the northeast Midlands region of England. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?- (“to bend, curve”).Compare Danish edderkop, Norwegian edderkopp, Low German kobbe.

Originating from the Dutch invaders who populated this area, the same word coppe, pronounced 'kab', existed in Middle Dutch up until the 14th century . The word kobbe, meaning spider, still exists in West-Flemish, a Dutch dialect spoken in the West of Flanders.

Noun

coppe

1. (archaic, Britain, regional) A spider.

Usage notes

• Still in use in the northeast Midlands region of England, although now almost obsolete.

Derived terms

• cobweb
• coppeweb

References

Italian

Noun

coppe f

1. plural of coppa
2. suit of some playing card

Anagrams

• ceppo