couper

Meaning

1. to cut, cut up; to chop, to sever
2. to cut, to clip, to trim
3. to cut off, to keep out, to bar
4. to take away
5. to stop, prevent
6. to dilute, mix
7. to traverse
8. to take a shortcut through something, to cut through
9. to crack

Concepts

cut

chop

cut off

slice

slash

break

split

trim

carve

hack

sever

turn off

harvest

cut out

cut up

shear

clip

separate

mow

reap

hew

strips

trump

dilute

shut off

prune

cut down

disconnect

stop

cut hair

chop down

switch off

pinch off

intersect

sculpt

lop

crop

divide

excise

gash

interrupt

tear

incise

tattoo

cut in half

cut into strips

mince

decide

cut away

work

drill

shut off down

play the trump card

castrate

cut a tooth

edit

crack

halve

rip

smash

dress

slay

ax

bisect

bite

cease

intermit

pare

snip

switch

pick

pull apart

suspend

ruff

to trump

tear up

cut one’s hair

block

box in

fetch firewood

scissors

machete blade

cut open

snap

clear

peck at

saw

amputate

intercept

syllabify

disrupt

resolve

baptize

turn out

interpose

log

stifle

fell

slice up

dissolve

power down

disassemble

dismember

touch on

bore

impale

penetrate

perforate

pierce

prick

punch

puncture

stake

stick

quit

disunite

part

cut across

allocate

break down

disunit

garble

mangle

shorten

truncate

box off

cut into pieces

cuts

stab

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ku.pe/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French coper, colper (“to cut off”), probably, derived from cop (“blow”), colp (modern coup), with its meaning coming from the idea of cutting off with a blow. It may correspond to a Vulgar Latin verb *colpāre, syncopated form of *colaphāre, from Latin colaphus (compare Old Spanish golpar, colpar, Old Galician-Portuguese golpar, golbar). Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppāre (“to behead”), from Latin caput (“head”), although this is unlikely. Not related to couteau.