köken: Inherited from Middle French bœuf, from Old French buef, boef, from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (compare English cow). The music sense derives from the expression “faire un Bœuf”, after the Parisian cabaret-bar Le Bœuf sur le toit where jam sessions were held.
aile: bœuf bourguignon, effet bœuf, fort comme un bœuf, langue de bœuf, mettre la charrue avant les bœufs, nerf de bœuf, qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf, suer comme un bœuf
faire un bœuf
"T'as peut-être fait quelque chose de croche. Si toi tu le sais pas, les bœufs le savent, eux."
copper (reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29)
köken: Inherited from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), from Latin cyprium (aes) (“Cypriot copper”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros), because Cyprus was its chief source. The irregular evolution of this term in Spanish and other Ibero-Romance languages like Portuguese cobre (with the expected result being *cobro) has been suggested to perhaps be due to some influence from Catalan coure, although this is…
aile: batir el cobre, batirse el cobre, cobrizo, Edad del Cobre, siglo de cobre
köken: Uncertain; attested at least from the Amarna period in Northwest Semitic; compare Phoenician 𐤍𐤇𐤔 (nḥš), Hebrew נְחֹשֶׁת (n'khóshet, “copper”), Ge'ez ናሕስ (naḥs), Aramaic נחשׁ (“copper, bronze”), and Nehushtan: * From Proto-Semitic *naḥaš- (“snake, reptile; divination, incantations; to learn secret things”), such a sense derived from hissing equated to whispers. The process of extracting ore and…
copper (reddish-brown, malleable metal) · copper · a small amount of money; little change
çekim: çoğul cobres
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), from Latin cyprium (aes) (“Cypriot copper”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros), because Cyprus was its chief source.