Where does “decouple” come from?
Decouple derives from French découpler, formed with the prefix dé- and copuler, from Latin copulāre meaning to join together, itself from copula meaning bond or link.
decouple (English): To unlink; to take or come apart
Definitions
- To unlink; to take or come apart
Ancestry of “decouple”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | découpler | to uncouple, decouple; to set apart |
| 2 | French | coupler | to couple |
| 3 | Latin | cōpulāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 5 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 6 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 7 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |