coup
English
/kuː/, /ku/
noun
Definitions
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- (US) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
- A coup d'état.
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
Etymology
Borrowed from French coup (strike, blow, hit) derived from Latin colpus (strike, hit), colaphus (cuff, blow, box on the ear, a cuff, blow with the fist).
Origin
Latin
colaphus
Gloss
cuff, blow, box on the ear, a cuff, blow with the fist
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticoup English
- autocoup English
- colpus English
- count coup English
- countercoup English
- coupist English
- coupmaking English
- coupstick English
- making English
- postcoup English
- precoup English
- self-coup English
- stick English
- *colpaticium Latin
- *colpus Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *cŏlǒpus Latin
- colaphus Latin
- colpus Latin
- Coup German
- coup Dutch, Flemish
- beaucoup French
- coup French
- gouffre French
- autogolpe Spanish, Castilian
- golpazo Spanish, Castilian
- golpe Spanish, Castilian
- golpecito Spanish, Castilian
- golpismo Spanish, Castilian
- golpista Spanish, Castilian
- paragolpes Spanish, Castilian
- κόλαφος Ancient Greek
- κόλπος Ancient Greek
- κόλᾰφος Ancient Greek
- kupp Norwegian Bokmål
- kupp Swedish
- kupp Norwegian Nynorsk
- kup Danish
- colp Old French
- coper Old French
- colpe Old Spanish
- colp Old Catalan