Where does “découplage” come from?

découplage (French) comes from French découpler, from French coupler, from Latin cōpulāre, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis — the god Apis.

découplage (French): decoupling

Definitions

  1. decoupling

Ancestry of “découplage”, step by step

découplage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French découpler

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdécouplerto uncouple, decouple; to set apart
2Frenchcouplerto couple
3Latincōpulāre
4Latincōpulaa bond, tie, band or other connecting item
5Latincoapula
6Latinapiodative singular of apium; ablative singular of...
7Latinapiumparsley; celery; genitive plural of apis
8LatinApisA seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica
9Ancient GreekἌπις
10Copticϩⲁⲡⲉthe Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum)
11Egyptianḥpthe god Apis

via French couplage

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcouplagecoupling
2French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
3Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
4Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
5Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
6Latin-āticum
Every word from Egyptian ḥpEvery word from Coptic ϩⲁⲡⲉEvery word from Ancient Greek Ἄπις