Where does “accouplement” come from?
accouplement (English) comes from French accouplement, from French accoupler, from French coupler, from Latin cōpulāre, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium — the god Apis.
accouplement (English): The act of coupling, or the state of being...
Definitions
- The act of coupling, or the state of being...
Ancestry of “accouplement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | accouplement | coupling, mating; coupling |
| 2 | French | accoupler | to pair up, go together, get into a couple; to... |
| 3 | French | coupler | to couple |
| 4 | Latin | cōpulāre | — |
| 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 |