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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κῶπαι (Kôpai).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cōpae f pl (genitive Cōpārum); first declension
- A town of Boeotia situated on the northern extremity of Lake Copais
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
References
- “Copae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Copae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Copae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.