Canopy
late Middle English: from medieval Latin canopeum ‘ceremonial canopy’, alteration of Latin conopeum ‘mosquito net over a bed’, from Greek kōnōpeion ‘couch with mosquito curtains’, from kōnōps ‘mosquito’.
wiktionary
From Middle English canape, canope, from Latin cōnōpēum(“curtain”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον(kōnōpeîon)), through Medieval Latin canopeum, or possibly Old French conope, conopé (compare modern French canapé), from κώνωψ(kṓnōps, “mosquito”), possibly ultimately from Egyptian[script needed](hams, “gnat”). [1] Doublet of canapé and conopeum.
etymonline
canopy (n.)
"suspended covering serving as protection or shelter," late 14c., canope, from Old French conope "bed-curtain" (Modern French canapé), from Medieval Latin canopeum, a dissimilatiion of Latin conopeum "mosquito curtain,"from Greek konopeion "Egyptian couch with mosquito curtains," from konops "mosquito, gnat," which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Egyptian hams (with a hard "h") "gnat," and altered in Greek by folk-etymology.
The same word (canape) in French, Spanish, and Portuguese has taken the other part of the Greek sense and now means "sofa, couch." Italian canape is a French loan word.
canopy (v.)
"cover with or as with a canopy," c. 1600, from canopy (n.). Related: Canopied; canopying.
