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

Borrowing 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)
• Turkish: burun (tr)
• Ukrainian: мис m (mys)
• Welsh: penrhyn (cy) m, pentir m
• West Coast Bajau: torong

Etymology 2

From 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, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-216012-4:

     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 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: cape (no) 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)

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

Borrowing from Old Provençal 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. first-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

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cape”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkkapə/

Noun

cape f

1. plural 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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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