Coup

Morpheme

Coup

Type

free base

Denotation

blow, strike

Etymology

French coup; Old French colp, cop; Late Latin colpus; Latin colaphus; Ancient Greek kólaphos

Evidence

anticoup, autocoup, countercoup, coup, coupism, coupist, coupmaking, coups, coupstick, postcoup, precoup

Notes

homophone of Coo and Khu