Copplestone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Old English copel (“unsteady, rocking”) + stān (“stone”). Alternatively, the first element might be related to Old English copp (“top, summit”), through the adjective coppel (“peaked, rounded”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Proper noun[edit]
Copplestone (countable and uncountable, plural Copplestones)
- A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7602). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Copplestone is the 18397th most common surname in England, belonging to 258 individuals.
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Copplestone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 365.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- Rhymes:English/əʊn
- Rhymes:English/əʊn/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Devon, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English