couple
v.
c.1200, from Old French copler, from cople (see couple, n.). Related: Coupled; coupling.
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."