Copula Definition

kŏpyə-lə
copulas
noun
copulas
Something that connects or links together.
Webster's New World
A verb, such as a form of be or seem, that identifies the predicate of a sentence with the subject.
American Heritage
The word or set of words that serves as a link between the subject and predicate of a proposition.
American Heritage

(statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.

Wiktionary

(music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.

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Other Word Forms of Copula

Noun

Singular:
copula
Plural:
copulae, copulas

Origin of Copula

  • Borrowed from Latin copula (“bond, tie”). See there for details.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin cōpula link

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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