different between coucher vs coacher

English

Etymology

From Middle English coucher, from Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couch +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?t??(?)/

Noun

coucher (plural couchers)

1. One who couches.
2. (papermaking) One who couches paper.
3. (Britain, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.

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4. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

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Anagrams

• courche, recouch

French

Etymology

From Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier, inherited from Latin colloc?re, present active infinitive of colloc? (“place, put, assemble”). Doublet of colloquer. Cognate with Spanish colgar and colocar, and with Romanian culca. Cognate with English couch and collocate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.?e/

Verb

coucher

1. (transitive) to lay, to lay down
2. (transitive) to put to bed, to put up (a lodger)
3. (reflexive) to go to bed
4. (transitive, agriculture) to lodge, to beat down (wheat)
5. (transitive) to layer (branches)
6. (transitive) to slant (writing)
7. (transitive, military) to aim at
8. (intransitive) to sleep
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Le soir, Michette est livrée en cul. Durcet prend la Martaine pour coucher dans sa chambre, à l'exemple du duc qui a Duclos et de Curval qui a Fanchon; cette fille prend sur lui le même empire lubrique que Duclos sur le duc.

9. (intransitive) to spend the night
10. (intransitive) to lodge
11. (intransitive) to pack off to bed

    coucher avec — to sleep with

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to go to bed) aller au lit, se pieuter

Derived terms

• chambre à coucher
• comme on fait son lit on se couche
• coucher sur le papier
• vélo couché
• Voulez-vous coucher avec moi

Descendants

• ? German: kusch
• ? Italian: cucciare

Noun

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. going to bed
2. bedding
3. room and board
4. setting (sun)

   coucher de soleil — sunset, sundown

Further reading

• “coucher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cochour, cowchour, cowchur, cowcher

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couche +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t??r/, /?ku?t?u?r/

Noun

coucher (plural couchers)

1. A worker of inlaid gems and metals.
2. A book containing prayers; a prayer-book.
3. (rare) One who lies in bed (either due to necessity or laziness).
4. (rare) A breed of dog.

Descendants

• English: coucher
• Scots: coocher

References

• “c?uch?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• couchier

Etymology

From Old French couchier.

Verb

coucher

1. (transitive) to put to bed

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: coucher

Noun

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. setting (of the sun)

English

Etymology

coach +? -er.

Noun

coacher (plural coachers)

1. A person who coaches or gives instruction; a coach.
2. (obsolete) A coachman.
3. A coach horse.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• caroche

French

Etymology

From English coach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot.?e/

Verb

coacher

1. (sports) to coach

Conjugation

Anagrams

• cochera, écorcha

Swedish

Noun

coacher

1. indefinite plural of coach