coupe的词源
英文词源
- coupé
- coupé: [19] Coupé is the past participle of the French verb couper ‘cut’, and it was originally applied in the early 19th century to a type of four-wheeled covered carriage (in full a carrosse coupé ‘cut-off carriage’). The notion behind the term is a truncated version of an earlier type of coach, known as a berlin, achieved by removing the rear seat. The first record of its application to closed two-door cars comes in 1908.
The French verb couper is a derivative of the noun coup ‘blow’ (itself borrowed into English in the 18th century), which in turn came from medieval Latin colpus (ultimate source of English coppice, which etymologically denotes the ‘cutting down’ of trees). Earlier in time the word can be traced back via Latin colaphus to Greek kólaphos ‘blow, punch’.
A related word is coupon, borrowed from French in the 19th century.
=> coppice, copse, coup - coupe (n.)
- 1834, from French coupe (18c.), noun use of past participle of couper "to cut (in half);" see coup. Modern use is from early 19c. carrosse coupe "cut-off carriage," a shorter version of the berlin, minus the back seat. First applied to closed two-door automobiles 1908.
中文词源
来自coup, 砍，击，砍成一半，即正常小汽车尺寸的一半。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：coupe 词源，coupe 含义。
coupe：小轿车；双座四轮轿式马车
与四门四座四轮轿车相比，coupe更短小，因为它的字面意思就是“a cut-off coach”。可以把coup-看做一个词根，表示to cut，如coupon ['kuːpɒn] n.息票；赠券；联票；[经] 配给券，是可以剪下来的。至于熟悉的Mini Cooper（迷你库柏，宝马公司的一种车），cooper是制桶匠，coop与cup同源。
