Where does “copulare” come from?
copulare (Romanian) comes from Romanian copulă, from French copule, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις — the god Apis.
copulare (Romanian): copulation
Definitions
- copulation
Ancestry of “copulare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | copulă | copula |
| 2 | French | copule | copula; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 4 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 5 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 7 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 9 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 10 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |