cape

cape

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kāp, IPA(key): /keɪp/
  • Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput (head). Doublet of caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head.

Noun

cape (plural capes)

  1. (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
    Synonyms: chersonese, peninsula, point
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (cape). The second sense ("superhero") is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes. Likewise, the verb sense "defend, praise" alludes to the stereotypical depiction of superheroes wearing capes when they come to people's defense. (Compare caped crusader and cape (a superhero).) Doublet of capa and cappa.

Noun

cape (plural capes)

  1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
  2. (slang) A superhero.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
  • cloak

Verb

cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)

  1. To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
  2. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
    The ship capes southwest by south.
  3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  4. (US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
    • 2017, Laila Nur, quoted in Jordan Green, "Far-right groups converge behind anti-sharia message in Raleigh", Triad City Beat, 14 June - 20 June 2017, page 9:
      Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.
    • 2017, Mindy Isser [organizer], quoted by Aubrey Whelan [journalist] in "For Philly's socialists, election wins signal momentum", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 November 2017:
      "I can't believe I'm out here caping for a politician."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cape.
  5. (transitive) To cover (as) with or like a cape.

Anagrams

  • APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sapɛ]

Verb

cape

  1. third-person singular present of capat
    Synonym: capá

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cape.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keːp/
  • Hyphenation: cape
  • Rhymes: -eːp

Noun

cape m (plural capes, diminutive capeje n)

  1. A cape.
    Synonym: mantel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kap/
  • Homophones: capent, capes

Noun

cape f (plural capes)

  1. cape

Derived terms

  • de cape et d’épée
  • rire sous cape

Descendants

  • English: cape (see there for further descendants)
  • Romanian: capă

Verb

cape

  1. inflection of caper:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “cape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

cape

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Adjective

cape

  1. (colloquial, slang) alternative spelling of capek

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.pe/
  • Rhymes: -ape
  • Hyphenation: cà‧pe

Noun

cape f

  1. plural of capa

Anagrams

  • Pace, pace

Latin

Verb

cape

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of capiō

References

  • cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cape

  1. Alternative form of cappe

Etymology 2

Noun

cape

  1. Alternative form of cope

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapə/

Noun

cape f

  1. plural of capa

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (cloak), kåpe (cloak), kapp (cape, headland).

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural caper, definite plural capene)

  1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

  • “cape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural capar, definite plural capane)

  1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

  • “cape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧pe
  • Rhymes: -api, -apɨ

Verb

cape

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Rukai

Noun

cape

  1. seed (of a fruit)

Spanish

Verb

cape

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Noun

cape c

  1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Declension

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