French word coucher comes from Latin loco, Latin cum (Although. Because. When With.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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loco | Latin (lat) | I arrange, establish. I lease, hire out, lend. I put, place, set. |
cum | Latin (lat) | Although. Because. When With. |
con- | Latin (lat) | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects. Used in compounds to indicate the completeness, perfecting of any act, and thus gives intensity to the signification of the simple word. |
com- | Latin (lat) | |
collocatum | Latin (lat) | |
*coloco | Latin (lat) | (Vulgar Latin, reflexive) I go to bed.. (Vulgar Latin, transitive) I lay down. |
couchier | Old French (fro) | Bedtime (point at which one goes to bed) (by extension) to have sex. (reflexive, se couchier) to go to bed. |
se couchier | Old French (fro) | |
coucher | Middle French (frm) | Setting (of the sun) (transitive) to put to bed. |
coucher | French (fr) | (intransitive) to lodge. (intransitive) to pack off to bed. (intransitive) to sleep. (intransitive) to spend the night. (reflexive) to go to bed. (transitive) to lay, to lay down. (transitive) to layer (branches). (transitive) to put to bed, to put up (a lodger). (transitive) to slant (writing). (transitive, agriculture) to lodge, to beat down (wheat). (transitive, military) to aim at [...] |