# coupé
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé (an elliptical form of carosse coupé (“cut carriage”)), the past participle of couper (“to cut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːˈpeɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Noun

coupé (countable and uncountable, plural coupés)
* A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)
* (British) A car with a fixed-roof body style that is shorter than a sedan or saloon of the same model.
* (historical) The front part of a French stagecoach.
* (historical) A four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside, and a separate seat for the driver.
* (historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.
* (uncountable) The strongest grade of Spanish saffron, akin to the Iranian sargol.

#### Coordinate terms

* convertible
* hardtop
* soft top

#### Derived terms

* coupé de ville
* coupé utility
* drophead coupé
* fixed head coupé

#### Translations
### Adjective

coupé (not comparable)
* (heraldry, obsolete) Couped.
** 1826, Sir Henry Chauncy, The Historical Antiquities of Hertforshire, page 314:[...] who was knighted : His Arms were Or, three Barrs Azure on a Canton Argent, a Lyon's Head coupé Gules;
** 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 82:Grant of Arms and Crest from Hervy Clarenceux : Sablés, a chevron engrayled betwene three bezants, on a chief gold a rose gules between two flower de luces azure. Crest, a horsse head coupé golde pelletey betwene two winges barrey […]
** 1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 117:Fig. 34, Argent, a baton sinister, coupé, gules (the mark of illegitimate descent).

#### Usage notes

* This is a false friend: in French heraldry, coupé means party per fess.

## Finnish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkupeː/, [ˈkupe̞ː]

### Noun

coupé
* coupé

#### Declension

Possessive forms of coupé (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) :

### Further reading

* “coupé”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku.pe/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)
* (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess; said of an escutcheon

### Participle

coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)
* past participle of couper

#### Derived terms

* coupé-décalé

### Noun

coupé m (plural coupés)
* coupé (car)

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: cupè
* → English: coupé
* → German: Coupé
* → Macedonian: купе (kupe)
* → Russian: купе́ (kupé)
* → Spanish: cupé
* → Ukrainian: купе́ (kupé)

#### See also

* coupé-cabriolet

### Further reading

* “coupé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* pouce

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈpe/$^{**}$, /kuˈpɛ/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -e, -ɛ

### Noun

coupé m
* coupé

### References

* ↑ coupé in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

From French couper (“to cut”).

### Verb

coupé
* to cut

### References

* Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* cupé

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈpe/ [kuˈpe]

### Noun

coupé m (plural coupés)
* coupé

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.