Coppern

//ˈkɒp.ən// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made or consisting of copper; coppery. archaic, not-comparable, poetic

    "Cherokee coppern jewelry"

Example

More examples

""Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels.""

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”).

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