Masculine
copain
Meaning
- (masculine) friend, chum, mate (UK), pal, buddy
- (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, masculine) ellipsis of petit copain: boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment)
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Freund
compañero
vriend
φίλος
amico
amigoFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɔ.pɛ̃/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.? Latin pānis Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂-der. Latin -ō Proto-West Germanic *gahlaibō Latin compāniō Old French compaing French copain # Inherited from Old French compaing, compain m, from Late Latin compāniō m (nominative form) (compare also Italian compagno m), from com- + pānis m, literally “with-bread”, a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a translation of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib m (“loaf, bread”). See also compagnon m, from the accusative form of the same Late Latin term compāniōnem, whence English companion. # The sense of 'boyfriend' is by ellipsis of petit copain.
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