capen

See also: Capen and capèn

Catalan

Verb

capen

1. third-person plural present indicative of capar

Galician

Verb

capen

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Middle English

Noun

capen

1. Alternative form of capoun

Verb

capen

1. To look for, search after.
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], (please specify |book=I to V), [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Longe may þey seche Er þat þei fynde þat þei after cape.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To gaze or stare.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     This Nicholas sat euere capyng

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

capen m

1. definite singular of cape

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

capen m

1. definite singular of cape

Spanish

Verb

capen

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative