coppice
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- coppice
- coppice: [14] The notion underlying coppice is of ‘cutting’. Its ultimate source is the Greek noun kólaphos ‘blow’, which passed via Latin colaphus into medieval Latin as colpus (source of English cope and coup). From colpus was derived a verb colpāre ‘cut’, which formed the basis of Vulgar Latin colpātīcium ‘having the quality of being cut’. Its Old French descendant copeïz came to be applied to an area of small trees regularly cut back. English borrowed this as coppice (and in the 16th century spawned a new contracted form copse).=> cope, copse, coup
- coppice (n.)
- late 14c., "small thicket of trees grown for cutting," from Old French copeiz, coupeiz "a cut-over forest," from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium "having been cut," ultimately from Latin colaphus "a blow with the fist," from Greek kolaphos "blow, cuff" (see coup).
Example
- 1. Several coppice plantations have been seeded with poplar , willow , and alder .
- 2. These include significant increases in the number of threatened farmland birds such as yellowhammer , willow warbler , reed bunting and redpoll in willow coppice , skylarks and lapwings in newly planted miscanthus and the declining harvest mouse in reed canary grass .