cover – English noun declension

English noun forms of cover

Noun: cover
Singularcover
Pluralcovers

Sample Sentences

  • The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.
  • There's a $15 cover tonight.
  • We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
  • When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover.
  • The covers were put on just before lunch.
  • He was brought in as cover for wicketkeeper.
  • The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
12. Latin operiō
13. Latin cooperiō
14. Old French covrirbor.
15. Middle English coveren
16. English cover
17. From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“to cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“to close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
18. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir and Portuguese cobrir. See: Latin Nouns 'cooperiō', Old English Nouns 'þeccan', Old English Nouns 'helan'.

Verbs referencing "cover"

Dutch Nouns cover, French Nouns cover, Swedish Nouns cover, Finnish Nouns koveri, Russian Nouns кавер.