cape

See also: capé and çapë

English

Cape Cod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāp, IPA^(key): /keɪp/

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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

Translations

headland

• Afrikaans: kaap (af)
• 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
• Dutch: kaap (nl)
• Esperanto: kabo
• Estonian: neem
• Finnish: niemi (fi), niemeke
• French: cap (fr) m
• Friulian: cjâf m
• Georgian: კონცხი (konc’xi)
• German: Kap (de) n
• Greek: ακρωτήρι (el) (akrotíri)

  Ancient: ἄκρον n (ákron)

• Greenlandic: nuuk
• Indonesian: tanjung (id)
• Iranun: tandu'
• 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
• Malagasy: tanjona (mg)
• Malay: tanjung, tanah penganjur
• Maori: kūrae
• Norwegian: 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 m

• Spanish: cabo (es) m
• Swedish: kap (sv) n
• Tagalog: tangos
• West Coast Bajau: torong

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.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part II, chapter4:

     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 f
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: mantel (nl)
• Esperanto: mantelo
• Estonian: peleriin keep (et)
• Finnish: viitta (fi)
• French: cape (fr) f
• German: Cape n
• Hungarian: köpeny (hu)
• Italian: cappa (it) f, mantellina f

• Japanese: ケープ (kēpu)
• Latin: cappa (la) f
• Maori: tūpuni
• Norwegian: cape (no) m
• Persian: شنل (fa) (šenel)
• Portuguese: capa (pt) f
• Romanian: capă (ro) f
• Russian: накидка (ru) f (nakídka), пелерина (ru) f (pelerína)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc m
• Spanish: capa (es) f
• Swedish: cape (sv) c, slängkappa 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.

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3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

Anagrams

• APEC, EPCA, pace, PACE

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French

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. first-person singular present subjunctive of caper
5. second-person singular imperative of caper

External links

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

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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

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkkapə/

Noun

cape f

1. plural form of capa

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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.
• “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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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

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Portuguese

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