coup
意味
- 不意に一撃
- 大当たり,大成功
- =coup d'état
例文
We only have secondhand information of the coup.
そのクーデターの間接的な情報しか得ていない。
The coup attempt was foiled at the last moment.
クーデター計画はぎりぎりのところで阻止されました。
The coup was meticulously executed.
クーデターは慎重に遂行された。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).