Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coppern

/ˈkɑ.pɚn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cop-pern
IPA: /ˈkɑ.pɚn/

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made or consisting of copper; coppery.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Cherokee coppern jewelry"
""Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels.""
"[...] the ministers, in order to slay him in accordance with the King's command, cut at him with all kinds of swords, but they availed naught and were unable; they put him into a coppern casket and cast him into the Ganges River."
"[…] a schema before them on a coppern (reference) figure of a person with markings of acupuncture points (youli kumiini zuruq)."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English copren, from Old English cypren (“made of copper”), from Proto-West Germanic *kupprīn, from Proto-West Germanic *kopr + *-īn, and/or from Latin cuprīnus, cyprīnus (“made of copper”). By surface analysis, copper + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Dutch koperen (“made of copper”), German kupfern (“made of copper”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: copren, cypren, *kupprīn, *kopr, cuprīnus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɑ.pɚn/
British English: /ˈkɒp.ən/

Usage

Archaic

Questions

How do you pronounce coppern?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑ.pɚn/.
What does coppern mean?: Made or consisting of copper; coppery.
Where does coppern come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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