Etymology: In 12th cent. cāpe (plural capen ), Middle English cōpe , representing an Old English *cápe weak feminine, not exemplified (compare Old Norse kápa , Danish kaabe ), < medieval Latin cāpa cope, as to which see cap n.¹Cápe , if in Old English, must have been a late word, introduced after cāpa ‘cope’ became the prevalent form and sense in medieval Latin (see Du Cange), long after cappa in its earlier form and sense gave cæppe cap n.¹ Compare cantelcapas in Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 1070: see cantel-cape n. The Middle English forms might be from Old Norse kápa, but this is an unlikely source. The phonetic series Latin cāpa, Old English cápe, Middle English cape, cope, modern cope, Scots cape, caip, is parallel to Latin pāpa, Old English pápa, Middle English pape, pope, modern pope, Scots pape, paip.

Etymology: Either < cope v.², or immediately < French coup, Old French also colp, cop, blow, stroke, shock, etc.

Etymology: < cope v.³: compare cheap n.¹

Etymology: Derivation and proper form unknown.

Etymology: < cope n.¹, in various unconnected senses.

Etymology: < French couper, in Old French colper , coper , couper to strike (now to cut), < Old French colp , cop , coup blow < medieval Latin colpus , colapus < Latin colaphus blow with the fist: see coup n.¹

Etymology: Of. Low German origin; used by Lydgate as Flemish: compare Middle Dutch côpen , Dutch koopen , Low German kôpen to buy, to traffic, buy and sell, exchange, barter; for the ulterior etymology, see cheap v., which is the native English form. Compare also coup v.¹ from Norse kaupa, the senses of which run parallel to those of cope, so that it is often treated as merely a northern dialect form of this verb.

Etymology: apparently < French coper, couper in its later sense ‘to cut’. Compare cope v.²

Etymology: Derivation uncertain; sometimes referred to coop v.¹

Etymology: compare cop v.²: but perhaps an error for wipe; the French original has assuyer les larmes.