cape

See also capé

English

Cape Cod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāp, IPA: /keɪp/, X-SAMPA: /keIp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

Middle French cap, from Latin caput (“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 (item 2.5)

Translations

headland

• Bau Bidayuh: tonyung
• Bulgarian: нос (bg) (nos) m
• Catalan: cap (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海角 (cmn) (hǎijiǎo)

• Czech: mys (cs) m
• Dutch: kaap (nl)
• Esperanto: kabo (eo)
• Estonian: neem (et)
• Finnish: niemi (fi), niemeke (fi)
• French: cap (fr) m
• German: Kap (de) n
• Greek: ακρωτήρι (el) (akrotiri)

  Ancient: ἄκρον (ákron) n

• Indonesian: tanjung (id)
• Italian: capo (it) m
• Japanese: 岬 (ja) (みさき, misaki)

• Korean: 곶 (ko) (got), 갑 (ko) (gap) (岬 (ko))
• Latin: promunturium (la) n, promontorium (la) n
• Malagasy: tanjona (mg)
• Malay: tanjung (ms)
• Maori: kūrae  (mi)
• Norwegian: kapp (no) n
• Old Norse: tangi
• Polish: przylądek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabo (pt) m
• Romanian: cap (ro) n, promontoriu (ro) n
• Russian: мыс (ru) (mys) m
• Scottish Gaelic: ceap (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рт (sh) m

  Roman: rt (sh) m

• Spanish: cabo (es) m
• Swedish: kap (sv) n
• Tagalog: tangos (tl)

Etymology 2

Wikipedia

Old English capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”).

A young woman in a crocheted cape.

Noun

cape (plural capes)

1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.

Translations

garment

• Bulgarian: пелерина (bg) (pelerina) f
• Catalan: capa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斗篷 (cmn) (dǒupeng), 披肩 (cmn) (pījiān)

• Dutch: mantel (nl)
• Esperanto: kabo (eo)
• Estonian: peleriin (et) keep (et)
• Finnish: viitta (fi)
• French: cape (fr) f
• German: Cape (de) n

• Hungarian: köpeny (hu)
• Japanese: ケープ (ja) (kēpu)
• Latin: cappa (la) f
• Maori: tūpuni (mi)
• Norwegian: cape (no) m
• Romanian: capă (ro) f
• Russian: накидка (ru) (nakídka) f, пелерина (ru) (pelerína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc (gd) m
• Spanish: capa (es) f
• Swedish: cape (sv) c
• Turkish: pelerin (tr)

See also

• cloak

Verb

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

1. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.

   The ship capes southwest by south.

2. (obsolete) To gape.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

Anagrams

• APEC
• EPCA
• pace, PACE

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kap/
• Homophones: capent, capes

Noun

cape f (plural capes)

1. cape

Verb

cape

1. first-person singular present indicative of caper
2. third-person singular present indicative of caper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of caper
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of caper
5. second-person singular imperative of caper

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Indonesian

Adjective

cape

1. tired (slang)

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Italian

Noun

cape f

1. Plural form of capa

Anagrams

• pace

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Latin

Verb

cape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of capiō
   1. "capture thou, seize thou, take thou"
   2. "take thou on"
   3. "take thou in, understand thou"

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Norwegian

Etymology

From English cape, from French, from Medieval Latin . Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”)

Noun

cape m

1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Inflection

    Inflection of cape

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	cape	capen	caper	capene
Nynorsk m	cape	capen	capar	capane

References

• “cape” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
• “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Swedish

Noun

cape c

1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Declension

Declension of cape

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cape	capeen	capeer	capeerna
genitive	capes	capeens	capeers	capeernas