cope

• IPA^(key): /kəʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

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

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.

   I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.

2. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
3. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

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

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

From Middle English cope, from Latin capa (“cape”). Doublet of cape.

cope (plural copes)

1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
   • Bishop Burnet

     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.
   • Milton

     the starry cope of heaven

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here, […] farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.

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.

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.
   • Holland

     Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.

Cognates include Dutch kopen, German kaufen.

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.
   • Shakespeare

     Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.

4. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
   • Shakespeare

     I love to cope him in these sullen fits.

   • Shakespeare

     They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.

   • Philips

     Host coped with host, dire was the battle.

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

     Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.

• CEOP, OPEC

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.

cope f (plural copes)

1. goblet
2. bowl
3. cup

• cape, coope

From Latin cāpa; possibly through a Old English *cāpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːp(ə)/

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.

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

• “cōpe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

• cupe

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.pə/

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

1. cup (vessel from which liquid is drunk)

• French: coupe
• Norman: coupe

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.