coppern meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

coppern

adj

CA, UK /ˈkɒp.ən/ · CA, US /ˈkɑ.pɚn/

Etymology Inherited from Middle English copren, from Old English cypren (“made of copper”), from Proto-West Germanic *kupprīn, from Proto-West Germanic *kopr + *-īn, and/or from Latin cuprīnus, cyprīnus (“made of copper”). By surface analysis, copper + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Dutch koperen (“made of copper”), German kupfern (“made of copper”).

Archaic, Poetic Made or consisting of copper; coppery.

Cherokee coppern jewelry
"Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels."1877, Johann Peter Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures:

2 more examples

[...] 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.1967, Ssanang Ssetsen, The Bejewelled Summary of the Origin of Khans:
[…] a schema before them on a coppern (reference) figure of a person with markings of acupuncture points (youli kumiini zuruq).2001, T︠S︡eren Korsunkievich Korsunkiev, John Richard Krueger, Ancient Oirat Books about Oriental Medicine: