cophinus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “basket”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.pʰi.nus/, [ˈkɔpʰɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.fi.nus/, [ˈkɔːfinus]

Noun

cophinus m (genitive cophinī); second declension

1. A hamper, basket.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cophinus	cophinī
genitive	cophinī	cophinōrum
dative	cophinō	cophinīs
accusative	cophinum	cophinōs
ablative	cophinō	cophinīs
vocative	cophine	cophinī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cofano
  • Neapolitan: cuofano
  • Sicilian: cufinu, còfinu, còfunu, cuòfinu
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: còfo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Northern French: cofin (“basket, coffer; sarcophagus”)
    • → Middle English: coffyn, cofyn
      • English: coffin
      • Scots: coffin
  • Old French: cofre
    • French: coffre
    • Norman: côffre
    • → Catalan: cofre
    • → Middle English: cofre, cofer, cofur, coffre, coffer, coffur, coofre, coofer, cophre
      • English: coffer
      • Scots: coffer
      • Yola: koaver
    • → Middle Dutch: coffer
      • → Middle High German: koffer
        • German: Koffer
          • → Polish: kufer
            • → Romanian: cufăr
          • → Serbo-Croatian: kufer
    • → Irish: cófra
    • → Portuguese: cofre
    • → Spanish: cofre
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cove
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: covo
  • Portuguese: cofinho, côvão
• Spanish: cuévano

References

• “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cophinus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cophinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cophinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cophinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin