capote

See also: Capote and capoté

English

Traditional capote made with a Hudson's Bay point blanket.

Straw capote.

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‎^[1], London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86:

     […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
     The little shepherd in his white capote
     Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   • 1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor‎^[2], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359:

     It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

     The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123:

     A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale‎^[3], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308:

     Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

Synonyms

• (coat): cappo

Derived terms

• capoted

Anagrams

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔt/

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Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. greatcoat
2. (of a car) soft top
3. (slang) Ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”).
   • 1994, “Zig Zag de l'aisé”, in Obsolète, performed by MC Solaar:

     Le pape demande de choisir hostie ou capote / Oh Shit ! Moins de fidèles et plus de sex shops

     The Pope requests that (the people) choose between the Eucharist and condoms / Merde ! Less of the faithful and no/more of the porn shops

Derived terms

• capoter
• décapoter

Descendants

• → English: capote
• → Portuguese: capote
• → Turkish: kaput

Verb

capote

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

See also

• capot

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• écopât

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Hyphenation: ca‧pote

Noun

capote f (invariable)

1. bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
2. soft top

Anagrams

• Capeto

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpɔ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧po‧te

Etymology 1

From French capot (“bonnet”), first attested in the 17th century.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
   • 1973, Fernando Tordo (lyrics and music), “Tourada”:

     Entram guizos, chocas e capotes / E mantilhas pretas

     Enter rattles, cowbells, and cloaks / And black mantillas

3. (card games) clean sweep
4. (figurative) disguise
5. (Brazil, colloquial) condom

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capote

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpote/ [kaˈpo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ca‧po‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters

Derived terms

• capotazo
• capote de brega
• capote de montar
• capote de monte
• capote de paseo
• capotillo
• echar un capote
• para mi capote

 

Etymology 2

Verb

capote

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

Further reading

• “capote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔːt/

Noun

capote

1. greatcoat

   Synonym: weeneen-kaase

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29