coupe

Borrowed from French coupe.

• IPA^(key): /kuːp/
• Homophone: coop

coupe (plural coupes)

1. An ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in.
2. (US) A car with two doors (variant of coupé).
3. An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.

• IPA^(key): /kup/

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From Old French cope, cupe, from Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa. Doublet of cuve. The sports sense is a semantic loan from English cup.

coupe f (plural coupes)

1. goblet, cup
2. (sports) cup (award; prize)

Deverbal of couper

coupe f (plural coupes)

1. cut
2. (style) haircut

• sous la coupe de

See the etymology of the main entry.

coupe

1. first-person singular present indicative of couper
2. third-person singular present indicative of couper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of couper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of couper
5. second-person singular imperative of couper

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

• pouce

• cupe

From Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa, from Old High German chôfa, chuofa, from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”).

cǒupe (plural cǒupes)

1. a large wicker basket; a dosser, a pannier
2. a basket, pen or enclosure for birds; a coop
3. a cart or sled equipped with a wicker basket for carrying manure, etc
4. a barrel or cask for holding liquids

• coop

From Old French coupe, cope, culpe, from Latin culpa (“fault, defect; crime”).

• cope
• culpe

cǒupe (plural cǒupes)

1. culpability, guilt, sinfulness

From Old French coup, cop, colp, from Latin colpus (“hit, strike, stroke”), colaphus (“a blow with the fist; a cuff”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “slap (to the face)”).

• caupe
• kaupe

cǒupe (plural cǒupes)

1. a blow, a strike
2. a cry, a shout

• “cǒupe (n.(1)) Also cupe.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 June 2016.
• “cǒupe (n.(2)) Also cope, culpe.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 June 2016.
• “cǒupe (n.(3)) Also caupe, kaupe.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 June 2016.

From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.

coupe f (plural coupes)

1. (Jersey) cup, chalice