Where does “copulatie” come from?
copulatie (Dutch) comes from Middle Dutch copulacie, from French copulation, from Latin copulatio, from Latin cōpulō, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium — the god Apis.
copulatie (Dutch): copulation, mating
Definitions
- copulation, mating
Ancestry of “copulatie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Dutch | copulacie | — |
| 2 | French | copulation | copulation |
| 3 | Latin | copulatio | coupling, joining, connecting, uniting |
| 4 | Latin | cōpulō | to bind or tie together, unite, join, couple |
| 5 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 6 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 7 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 8 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 9 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 11 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 12 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |