couple: [13] The notion underlying couple is of ‘joining’. The noun came into English via Old French from Latin cōpula ‘tie, connection’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and the verb apere ‘fasten’ (source of English apt, adapt, adept, and inept). Derived from it was the verb cōpulāre, source of English copulate [17]. => adapt, adept, apt, copulate, inept
couple (v.)
c. 1200, from Old French copler, from cople (see couple (n.)). Related: Coupled; coupling.
couple (n.)
late 13c., from Old French cople "married couple, lovers" (12c., Modern French couple), from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."
例文
1. The couple married in the Caribbean to avoid a media circus.
メディアの注目を抜け出すために、この新人はカリブで結婚した。
2.Dave，the pianist，played it over a couple of times.
ピアノを演奏したデイブはこの曲を2、3回繰り返し弾きました。
3.She had hoped the couple would put on a show of unity.
彼女はその夫婦が仲良くしている姿を見せてほしいと思っていた。
4.The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddddlers.
この夫婦は幼い子供たちの捜索を手伝っていた。
5.She had written him a note a couple of weeks earlier.