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copeiz

copeiz

Old French

Noun

copeiz m ‎(oblique plural copeiz, nominative singular copeiz, nominative plural copeiz)

  1. a cut-over woods

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References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (copeiz)

Etymology

From presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium ‎(“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre ‎(“to cut, strike”), from *colpus ‎(“a blow”), from Latin colaphus ‎(“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος ‎(kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).

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