capón

See also: capon, Capon, and ĉapon

Galician

Feira do capón ("the capon fair"), Vilalba

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese capon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Portuguese capão and Spanish capón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpoŋ/

Noun

capón m (plural capóns)

1. capon
   • 1348, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 72:

     It. mando que den .CCC. mrs. porllas almas daquelles a que tomey capon ou gallina ou carne que non pagase.

     Item, I order that they shall give 300 maravedis for the souls of them from whom I took capon or hen or meat that I didn't pay

2. faggot, bundle

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “capon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “capo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “capón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Catalan capó, English capon, French chapon, Italian cappone, Portuguese capão.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpon/ [kaˈpõn]
• Hyphenation: ca‧pón

Adjective

capón (feminine capona, masculine plural capones, feminine plural caponas)

1. castrated

   Synonym: castrado

Related terms

• capar

Noun

capón m (plural capones)

1. capon (castrated cockerel)
2. pat or rap on the head

Further reading

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

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Venetian

Alternative forms

• capon

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Italian cappone.

Noun

capón m (plural capóni)

1. capon