köken: Inherited from Old French cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre, from Latin Cyprium, cupreum (aes) (compare cuprum) from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kŭ́pros, “Cyprus”). It was not uncommon for Greek short ῠ (pronounced in Classical Attic as /y/) to be adapted as Latin short ŭ. This would normally yield Proto-Western-Romance *[o], but a following palatal sound apparently could cause *[o] to be raised to *[u]…
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.