coppern
English
Etymology
From Middle English copren, equivalent to copper + -en (“made of”). Compare Old English cyperen (“coppern”), of like formation.
Adjective
coppern (comparative more coppern, superlative most coppern)
- (archaic or poetic) Made or consisting of copper; coppery.
- 1877, Johann Peter Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures:
- "Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels."
- 1967, Ssanang Ssetsen, The Bejewelled Summary of the Origin of Khans:
- [...] the ministers, in order to slay him in accordance with the King's command, cut at him with all kinds of swords, but they availed naught and were unable; they put him into a coppern casket and cast him into the Ganges River.
- 2001, T︠S︡eren Korsunkievich Korsunkiev, John Richard Krueger, Ancient Oirat Books about Oriental Medicine:
- […] a schema before them on a coppern (reference) figure of a person with markings of acupuncture points (youli kumiini zuruq).
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Translations
made of copper — see copper