Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act. · Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery. · A coup d'état. · A takeover of one group by another.
To execute a coup. · To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état. · To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
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