cape
English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput (“head”). Doublet of caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head.
Noun[edit]
cape (plural capes)
- (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
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Etymology 2[edit]
From French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”). The second sense is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes. Doublet of capa and cappa.
Noun[edit]
cape (plural capes)
- A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
- 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.
- (slang) A superhero.
- 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One, Diversion Books (→ISBN):
- Rows and rows of booths and pavilions stretch across the floor, draped with glowing holograms and shifting signs beckoning capes to try their wares. Bystander insurance. Hypertech components. Mystical ingredients. Training DVDs ...
- 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One, Diversion Books (→ISBN):
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Verb[edit]
cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)
- To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
- 2013, Odie Hawkins, The Black Matador, "Sugar" (AuthorHouse, →ISBN), page 140:
- “I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve."
- 2013, Odie Hawkins, The Black Matador, "Sugar" (AuthorHouse, →ISBN), page 140:
- (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
- The ship capes southwest by south.
- To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
- (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (US, slang) To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
- 2016, Ken Makin, "Clinton-Trump debacle underscores gross misunderstanding of politics", Urban Pro Weekly, 6 October - 12 October 2016, page 5:
- A lot of African-Americans believe the answer is Clinton, mostly because "she's not Trump" and because President Barack Obama is shamelessly caping for her.
- 2017, Laila Nur, quoted in Jordan Green, "Far-right groups converge behind anti-sharia message in Raleigh", Triad City Beat, 14 June - 20 June 2017, page 9:
- Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.
- 2019, Julian Lutz, "Elizabeth Warren has authenticity", The Hawk (Saint Joseph's University), 3 April 2019, page 8:
- […] Biden is the old man who once caped for systematic racism; […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cape.
- 2016, Ken Makin, "Clinton-Trump debacle underscores gross misunderstanding of politics", Urban Pro Weekly, 6 October - 12 October 2016, page 5:
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from Old English capian (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Cognate with Dutch gapen, German gaffen (“to stare at curiously, rubberneck”), Low German gapen (“to stare”). Related to keep.
Verb[edit]
cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)
- (obsolete) To look for, search after.
- Long may they search ere that they find that they after cape.(Geoffrey Chaucer)
- (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)
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Noun[edit]
cape m (plural capes, diminutive capeje n)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cape f (plural capes)
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Verb[edit]
cape
- inflection of caper:
Further reading[edit]
- “cape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cape
- (colloquial, slang) alternative spelling of capek
Italian[edit]
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cape f
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Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
cape
References[edit]
- cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
cape
- Alternative form of cappe
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
cape
- Alternative form of cope
Neapolitan[edit]
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cape f
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”), kapp (“cape, headland”).
Noun[edit]
cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural caper, definite plural capene)
- a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.
Noun[edit]
cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural capar, definite plural capane)
- a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)
References[edit]
- “cape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese[edit]
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cape
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of capar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of capar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of capar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of capar
Rukai[edit]
Noun[edit]
cape
- seed (of a fruit)
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
cape
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of capar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capar.
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
cape c
- cape (sleeveless garment used by women)
Declension[edit]
Declension of cape | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cape | capeen | capeer | capeerna |
Genitive | capes | capeens | capeers | capeernas |
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- Rhymes:Italian/ape
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- nn:Clothing
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