different between crope vs cope

English

Etymology

From Middle English crope, from Old English cr?ap (“crept”), first and third person singular indicative of cr?opan (“to creep”).

Verb

crope

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of creep

Related terms

• cropen

Anagrams

• Pecor, Pore?, coper

Old French

Alternative forms

• croupe, crupe

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz.

Noun

crope f (oblique plural cropes, nominative singular crope, nominative plural cropes)

1. croup (rear of a horse)

Descendants

• Middle French: croupe
  • French: croupe (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: croupe
• ? Middle English: croupe, crope, crop, croppe
  • English: croup, croupe
  • Scots: crouppe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
3. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
   • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports

     the beak and talons should be closely coped

Interjection

cope

1. (rude) Expression of spite towards someone who suffered a major setback.

Synonyms

• (to deal effectively): contend, hold it together

Antonyms

• (to deal effectively): lose one's shit (vulgar)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin c?pa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.

Noun

cope (plural copes)

1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XI:

     He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.

2. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
3. (literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
4. (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
5. (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.

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6. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

Translations

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
2. (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     [wrestlers] tripping, […] coping and tugging

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English copen, borrowed from Middle Dutch copen. Cognate with Dutch kopen, German kaufen.

Verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

1. (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
2. (obsolete) To exchange or barter.

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3. (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
4. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.

5. (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

Anagrams

• CEOP, OPEC

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin c?pa.

Noun

cope f (plural copes)

1. goblet
2. bowl
3. cup

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cape, coope

Etymology

From Latin c?pa; possibly through a Old English *c?pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??p(?)/

Noun

cope (plural copes)

1. A cape or cloak; a loose-fitting outer layer.
2. A cope; a cape used by clerics and priests, especially that worn by mendicants or monastics.
3. Any sort of covering or cover, especially the heavens.

Descendants

• English: cope
• Scots: caip, cape, cap

References

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• cupe

Etymology

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin c?pa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.p?/

Noun

cope f (oblique plural copes, nominative singular cope, nominative plural copes)

1. cup (vessel from which liquid is drunk)

Descendants

• French: coupe
  • ? English: coupe
• Norman: coupe

Spanish

Verb

cope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of copar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of copar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of copar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of copar.