coup
French
noun
Definitions
- blow, hit, strike
- (by extension) fast and instantaneous action
- (firearm) load, shot
- bit small quantity
- planned action
- (slang) lay
Etymology
Inherited from Old French colp inherited from Latin *colpus, colaphus (cuff, blow, box on the ear, a cuff, blow with the fist) derived from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (slap, blow, a blow, smack).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κόλαφος
Gloss
slap, blow, a blow, smack
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticoup English
- autocoup English
- beaucoup English
- boko English
- bookoo English
- colpus English
- count coup English
- countercoup English
- coup English
- coupist English
- coupmaking English
- coupstick English
- postcoup English
- precoup English
- self-coup English
- *colpaticium Latin
- *colpus Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *cŏlǒpus Latin
- colaphus Latin
- colpus Latin
- Coup German
- colpo Italian
- contracoup Dutch, Flemish
- coup Dutch, Flemish
- couppleger Dutch, Flemish
- tegencoup Dutch, Flemish
- beau French
- beaucoup French
- gouffre French
- κόλαφος Ancient Greek
- κόλπος Ancient Greek
- κόλᾰφος Ancient Greek
- *kelh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- kupp Norwegian Bokmål
- kuppforsøk Norwegian Bokmål
- militærkupp Norwegian Bokmål
- statskupp Norwegian Bokmål
- kupp Swedish
- statskupp Swedish
- kupp Norwegian Nynorsk
- kuppforsøk Norwegian Nynorsk
- militærkupp Norwegian Nynorsk
- statskupp Norwegian Nynorsk
- kup Danish
- biau cop Old French
- colp Old French
- coper Old French
- κόλαφος Greek (modern)
- co Norman
- colbe Old Portuguese
- còp Occitan
- golpe Asturian
- colp Old Occitan
- colpe Old Spanish
- boukou Mauritian Creole
- boucou Louisiana Creole French
- colp Old Catalan
- boku Nigerian Pidgin