cap

cap

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English

Alternative forms

  • (a lie or exaggeration): 🧢

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæp/, [kʰæp]
  • Hyphenation: cap
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput- and Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headwear
  2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard.
  4. A protective cover or seal.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth.
  6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
    Antonym: floor
  8. The top part of a mushroom.
  9. (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
  10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
  11. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
  12. (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
  13. (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
  14. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
  15. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
  16. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  17. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
  18. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
  19. (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
  20. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
  21. A large size of writing paper.
  22. (Appalachia) Popcorn.
Derived terms
  • (general terms): cap-a-pie, cap-apée, capcase, capful, capless, caplike, decap, goosecap, Monmouth Cap (hamlet), nanocap, uncapped
  • (head covering): Ascot cap, bald cap, ballcap, baseball cap, bathing cap, black cap, bouffant cap, Breton cap, bump cap, cap and bells, cap and gown, cap badge, cap-flap, cap in hand, cap money, cap of liberty, cap of maintenance, cap over the windmill, capmaker, capmaking, capstring, China cap, cloth cap, cold cap, coon-skin cap, cornercap, cunt cap, Davy Crockett cap, deerslayer cap, deerstalker cap, dunce cap, dunsel cap, Dutch cap, elector's cap, face cap, Fanny Murray cap, furcap, Gandhi cap, gimme cap, feather in one's cap, fitted cap, flat cap, Glengarry cap, fool's cap, fore-and-aft cap, forage cap, friar's cap, half cap, hand-in-cap, huffcap, hunting cap, if the cap fits, Juliet cap, knit cap, liberty cap, longshoreman's cap, lounging cap, Mickey Mouse cap, mob cap, monkey cap, Monmouth cap, muffin cap, newsboy cap, nose cap, nightcap, offcap, overseas cap, Phrygian cap, priestcap, propeller cap, rally cap, rastacap, ratting cap, redcap, Scotch cap, scullcap, skycap, suncap, swimcap, sea cap, service cap, shingle cap, shower cap, side cap, ski cap, skullcap, smoking cap, stocking cap, swim cap, swimming cap, smoking cap, thinking cap, throw one's cap over the windmill, trencher cap, watch cap, watermelon cap, whitecap, whitecapper, widow's cap, wig cap, wishing cap
  • (protective cover or seal): bottle cap, bow cap, cap flashing, cervical cap, crown cap, dental cap, dewcap, distributor cap, dust cap, Dutch cap, earcap, eyecap, filler cap, gas cap, hubcap, jimmy cap, lens cap, Noddy cap, petrol cap, pull-off cap, root cap, screw cap
  • (artificial upper limit): cap and trade, caplet, capology, caponomics, interest rate cap, level cap, salary cap, voting cap
  • (small amount of explosive used as detonator): bust a cap, cap and ball, mudcap, percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass, snap cap
  • (something covering the top or end of a thing): 5′ cap, base cap, blackccap, blasting cap, bluecap, cap carbonate, cap cloud, cap nut, cap product, cap screw, cap sheet, cap sleeve, cap snatching, cap stealing, caprock, capsheaf, capsquare, capstone, cross-cap, die cap, end cap, endcap, fuel cap, haycap, ice cap, keycap, kneecap, legal cap, nose cap, polar cap, ribeye cap, rump cap, screwcap, sirloin cap, snowcap, spherical cap, toecap, turncap, windcap
  • (head): cradle cap, fuddlecap, madcap
  • (toy): cap gun, cap pistol
  • (names of mushrooms): candy cap, death cap, inkcap, inky cap, milk-cap, panther cap, powder cap, saffron milk cap ugly milk-cap, waxcap, waxy cap, webcap
  • (other species): elf-cap moss, jockey's cap, priestcap, Turk's cap lily, Turk's cap
Translations
See also
  • lid
  • set one's cap at

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
  2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
  3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
  4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
  5. (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
  6. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
  8. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
  10. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
    Synonym: pop a cap into
  12. (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
  14. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
  15. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
  16. To deprive of a cap.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Various clippings.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (finance) Capitalization.
  2. (informal) A capital letter.
  3. (electronics) A capacitor.
  4. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.(shortening of "capture").
  5. (slang) A capsule of a drug.
  6. (colloquial) A capitalist.
  7. (anatomy) A capillary.
  8. A caption.
Derived terms
  • (capitalization): cap table, large cap, market cap, mega cap, megacap, microcap, midcap, small-cap
  • (capital letter): capline, drop cap
  • (recording or screenshot): mo-cap
  • (capsule): cap up, caplet
  • (capitalist): an-cap, anticap
  • (capillary): cap refill
  • (caption): endcap
Translations

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
  2. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
  3. (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
Derived terms
  • (capitalise): intercapped
  • (take a screenshot or record a video): mo-cap

Etymology 3

From Scots cap, an alteration of earlier cop, from Middle English cop, from Old English copp (“a cup, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
Derived terms

Anagrams

  • PAC, CPA, PCA, Pac, ACP, pac, APC, Pac., PAc

Aromanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.

Noun

cap n (plural capiti/capite)

  1. head

Derived terms

  • cãpic
  • cãpos

Related terms

See also

  • capã

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkap]
  • Rhymes: -ap

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Compare Occitan cap. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. boss, chief, leader
    cap d'estat ― head of state
  3. (geography) cape (piece of land)
  4. (heraldry) chief
  5. end
    cap de setmana ― weekend
Derived terms

Determiner

cap (invariable)

  1. no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
  2. any (in questions and suppositions)

Pronoun

cap

  1. none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle)
  2. anyone (in questions and suppositions)
    que en falta cap? ― is there anyone missing?

Preposition

cap

  1. towards, to
Derived terms
  • cap a
  • capdamunt
  • capdavall
  • capdavant

Related terms

  • acabar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cap

  1. inflection of cabre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cap”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
  • “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English cap.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. Used in cap帽 (“cap; hat”).
  2. upper limit; upper bound

Etymology 2

Clipping of English capture.

Pronunciation

Verb

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to screenshot or record
    cap低 [Cantonese]  ―  kep1 dai1 [Jyutping]  ―  to save a screenshot
  2. to obtain or accumulate money
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Clipping of English capacitor.

Pronunciation

Noun

cap (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. capacitor (Classifier: 粒 c)
Derived terms

See also

  • 反cap

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kap/

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

  1. (geography) cape
  2. (archaic) head
  3. (nautical) heading
  4. (figuratively) goal, direction, course
    Synonym: cible
    cap stratégique ― strategic course
  5. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

Derived terms

  • cap glacé
  • de pied en cap
  • mettre le cap

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • PAC

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃap]
  • Hyphenation: cap

Etymology 1

  • Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap), English chop all meaning stamp, seal.
  • Probably become Chinese 劄 (zhá, “letter, brief note”) through phono-semantic matching.

Noun

cap (plural cap-cap)

  1. seal, stamp
    Synonyms: stempel, tera
  2. record
    Synonym: rekaman
  3. printing
    Synonyms: cetak, cetakan
  4. trademark
    Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket
  5. (figurative) characteristic
    Synonyms: ciri, sifat
Alternative forms
  • cop: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay
  • tjap (1901–1947)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

cap (plural cap-cap)

  1. sound of tongue smacking
    Synonym: kecap

Further reading

  • “cap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Noun

cap

  1. seal, stamp

Malay

Etymology

From English chop (“An official stamp or seal, as in China and India”), from Indo-Aryan, either Hindi छाप (chāp), Gujarati છાપ (chāp), Bengali ছাপ (chap) all meaning stamp, seal. Doublet of cop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃap]
  • Rhymes: -ap

Noun

cap

  1. seal; stamp
  2. brand

Derived terms

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

  • cǫp

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Compare Romanian cap.

Noun

cap n (plural capiti)

  1. head

References

  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Middle English

Noun

cap

  1. Alternative form of cappe

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head
    • 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques

Descendants

  • French: cap
  • → English: cape

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kap/

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

  1. head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
  2. leader, chief, mastermind
  3. cape, headland

Derived terms

  • cap d'estat
  • cap de còla

Related terms

  • acabar

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sap/
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: cap

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Romanian țap, possibly from Albanian cjap.

Noun

cap m animal

  1. billy-goat
  2. buck (male of an antlered animal)
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) lecherous man
  4. (colloquial) bearded man
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

cap

  1. sound of a violent grabbing of someone or something
    Synonym: łap

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cap

  1. second-person singular imperative of capić

Further reading

  • cap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkap/
  • Rhymes: -àp

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet șef, borrowed from French.

Noun

cap n (plural capete)

  1. head
Declension
Derived terms
  • căpetenie
  • căpos
  • căpușă
  • în ruptul capului
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cap.

Noun

cap n (plural capuri)

  1. cape (headland)
Declension

Scots

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English cappe (“cap, hat”).

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. cap, hat [from 15th century]

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past capped, past participle capped)

  1. confer a university degree by touching the graduate's head with a ceremonial cap [from 19th century]

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English coppe (“cup”). Attested from Older Scots (a. 1700).

Noun

cap (plural caps)

  1. a bowl for food or drink; a cup
  2. a wooden bowl used to measure grain, potatoes etc.
  3. small beer, table beer, cappie ale
  4. any of various bowl-shaped receptacles

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capin, simple past capt, past participle capt)

  1. share a bowl of drink or food

Etymology 3

From Old French caper (“to seize”). Attested from at least the 19th century. Compare older kep (“keep; catch”).

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capin, simple past capt, past participle capt)

  1. seize (a thing), take by force
  2. arrest, stop the progress (of a person or thing)
  3. catch (a falling object)

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *capъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sap]

Noun

cap m animal (female equivalent koza, relational adjective capí, diminutive capko, augmentative capisko)

  1. a male goat, he-goat, billygoat

Declension

References

Further reading

  • “cap”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Tyap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɑ́p/

Noun

cap

  1. fur

Vietnamese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaːp̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaːp̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaːp̚˦˥]
  • Phonetic spelling: cáp

Noun

cap

  1. (slang, Internet) Abbreviation of caption.

Welsh

Noun

cap m (plural capau or capiau)

  1. cap

Derived terms

  • cap ffibr (“fibrecap”)
  • cap iâ (“ice cap”)
  • cap nos (“nightcap”)
  • cap tebot (“tea cosy”)

Mutation

Further reading

  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cap”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh-English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cap”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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