Silbentrennung
cop·piceAussprache
Etymologie
() From Old French coupeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Late Latin colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpare (“to cut, strike”), from Medieval Latin colpus (“a blow”), from Vulgar Latin colapus, from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek (kolaphos).
* In 1578, the contracted form copse arose, meaning "small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting"