cape

See also: Cape, capé, cápe, and çapë

English

Cape Cod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāp, IPA^(key): /keɪp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan 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

Derived terms

Terms derived from cape

• Cape Cod
• Cape Girardeau

• Cape May
• Cape of Good Hope

• Cape Verde
• North Cape

Translations

headland

• Afrikaans: kaap (af)
• Arabic: رَأْس‎‎ (ar) m (raʾs)
• Bashkir: морон (moron)
• Bau Bidayuh: tonyung
• Bulgarian: нос (bg) m (nos)
• Catalan: cap (ca) m
• Central Melanau: tajuong, tujoh
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海角 (zh) (hǎijiǎo)

• Czech: mys (cs) m
• Danish: kap (da) n
• Dutch: kaap (nl)
• Esperanto: kabo
• Estonian: neem
• Finnish: niemi (fi), niemeke
• French: cap (fr) m
• Friulian: cjâf m
• Georgian: კონცხი (ḳoncxi)
• German: Kap (de) n
• Greek: ακρωτήρι (el) (akrotíri)

  Ancient: ἄκρον n (ákron)

• Greenlandic: nuuk
• Hawaiian: lae
• Hungarian: fok (hu)
• Indonesian: tanjung (id)
• Iranun: tandu'
• Irish: rinn f, ceann tíre m
• Italian: capo (it) m
• Japanese: 岬 (ja) (みさき, misaki)
• Korean: 곶 (ko) (got), 갑 (ko) (gap) (岬 (ko))

• Latin: promunturium n, promontorium n
• Latvian: zemesrags m
• Lithuanian: kyšulys m
• Malagasy: tanjona (mg)
• Malay: tanjung, tanah penganjur
• Maori: kūrae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kapp n

  Nynorsk: kapp n

• Old Norse: tangi
• Polish: przylądek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabo (pt) m
• Romanian: cap (ro) n, promontoriu (ro) n
• Russian: мыс (ru) m (mys)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceap m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рт m

  Roman: rt (sh) m

• Slovak: mys m
• Slovene: rt (sl) m
• Spanish: cabo (es) m
• Swahili: rasi (sw)
• Swedish: kap (sv) n
• Tagalog: tangos, lungos (tl)
• Thai: แหลม (th) (lɛ̌ɛm)
• Turkish: burun (tr)
• Ukrainian: мис m (mys)
• Vietnamese: mũi (vi), mũi đất (vi)
• Welsh: penrhyn (cy) m, pentir m
• West Coast Bajau: torong

Etymology 2

From French cape, from Old Occitan 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.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

Translations

garment

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

  Mandarin: 斗篷 (zh) (dǒupeng), 披肩 (zh) (pījiān), 披風 (zh), 披风 (zh) (pīfēng)

• Danish: kappe c
• Dutch: mantel (nl)
• Esperanto: mantelo
• Estonian: peleriin keep (et)
• Finnish: viitta (fi)
• French: cape (fr) f
• German: Cape (de) n
• Greek: κάπα (el) f (kápa), μπέρτα (el) f (bérta)
• Hungarian: köpeny (hu)
• Italian: cappa (it) f, mantellina f
• Japanese: ケープ (kēpu)
• Korean: 케이프 (keipeu)

• Latin: cappa (la) f
• Macedonian: наметка f (nametka)
• Maori: tūpuni, katekate
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cape (no) m

  Nynorsk: cape m

• Persian: شنل‎‎ (fa) (šenel)
• Polish: peleryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: capa (pt) f
• Romanian: capă (ro) f
• Russian: наки́дка (ru) f (nakídka), пелери́на (ru) f (pelerína)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc m
• Spanish: capa (es) f
• Swedish: cape (sv) c, slängkappa c
• Turkish: pelerin (tr)
• Welsh: cêp f, cêps f pl

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. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

Etymology 3

From Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from Old English capian (“to look”), from Proto-Germanic *kapjaną. Cognate with German gaffen (“to stare at curiously, rubberneck”), Low German gapen (“to stare”). Related to keep.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To look for, search after.

   Long may they search ere that they find that they after cape.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

2. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

   The captain just caped mindlessly into the distance as his ship was hit by volley after volley.

   This Nicholas ever caped upward into the air.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• APEC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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. third-person singular present subjunctive of caper
5. second-person singular imperative of caper

Further reading

• “cape” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Indonesian

Adjective

cape

1. (slang) tired

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Italian

Noun

cape f

1. plural of capa

Anagrams

• pace

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Latin

Verb

cape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of capiō

References

• cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cæppe.

Noun

cape

1. Alternative form of cappe

Etymology 2

From Latin cāpa, potentially through an Old English *cāpa.

Noun

cape

1. Alternative form of cope

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkkapə/

Noun

cape f

1. plural of capa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”), kapp (“cape, headland”).

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural caper, definite plural capene)

1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

• “cape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural capar, definite plural capane)

1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

• “cape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -api

Verb

cape

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of capar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of capar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of capar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of capar

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Spanish

Verb

cape

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of capar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capar.

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Swedish

Noun

cape c

1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Declension

Declension of cape
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cape	capeen	capeer	capeerna
Genitive	capes	capeens	capeers	capeernas