Where does “acoplado” come from?
acoplado (Spanish) comes from Spanish acoplar, from Latin cōpulāre, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις — the god Apis.
acoplado (Spanish): trailer; hanger-on, tagger-along
Definitions
- trailer; hanger-on, tagger-along
Ancestry of “acoplado”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | acoplar | to couple; to adapt oneself |
| 2 | Latin | cōpulāre | — |
| 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 |