cover

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To place something over or on top of something else.

   Cover the pot with a lid while it cooks.

2. 2
   verb

   To protect someone or something with insurance.

   The insurance won't cover this damage.

3. 3
   noun

   Bedding such as a blanket that keeps a person warm in bed.

   They pulled the covers over their heads and went to sleep.

4. 4
   noun

   A layer of something that lies over a surface.

   The garden lay under a covering of snow.

5. 5
   noun

   A new recording of a song first made popular by someone else.

   They made a cover of a Beatles song.

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Simplified etymology

Cover entered English in the Middle English period through French couvrir from Latin cooperire. The Latin verb was formed from co(m)-, an intensive indicating “entirely,” and operire “cover, conceal.” Covert comes from the same root, while coverlet comes from Old French cover-lit “bed covering.”

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Latin operiō Latin cooperiō Old French covrirbor. Middle English coveren English cover 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…

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