Daily Ancestorcopulerede
Copulerede, from Latin copulare, to join, is an old Dano-Norwegian church word for "married" that can head the marriage list in a Norwegian church book.
Most Norwegian priests were educated in Copenhagen, and church books mix Danish with Latin words and phrases. NAOB, the Norwegian Academy dictionary, marks kopulere in the sense of marrying a couple as obsolete. FamilySearch lists copulerede beside viede and vigde as headings for marriages.
In a church book the word means only that the priest married the couple, nothing more. Latin entries may use copulati, they were married, for the same event.
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Daily Ancestor. "copulerede." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/norwegian/copulerede. Last checked 2026-10-28.