Where does “coupling” come from?
Coupling comes from Middle English couplyng, formed with the suffix -ing (from Old English -ing), derived from the Latin copulāre, meaning to join or fasten together, ultimately from Latin cum, meaning with.
coupling (English): present participle of couple; act of joining...
Definitions
- present participle of couple; act of joining...
Ancestry of “coupling”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | couplynge | The creation of a romantic or marital bond or a marriage |
| 2 | Middle English | couplen | To marry or wed; to join in a matrimonial union;... |
| 3 | Old French | coupler | — |
| 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 |