cape

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See also: Cape, capé, cápe, çapë, and čape

English

Cape Cod.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kāp, IPA(key): /keɪp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • 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
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Etymology 2

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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.

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.
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      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.
  2. (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 ...

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Verb

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  1. 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."
  2. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
    The ship capes southwest by south.
  3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  4. (uncommon) To wear a cape.
    • 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One (Diversion Books, →ISBN):
      Calamity tells me about the adventures she's had caping around the city, and I tell her about how I transitioned. When I tell her about David, and how he suddenly became a jerk overnight, she surprises me by nodding along.

Etymology 3

From Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from Old English capian (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. 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)
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cape.

Pronunciation

Noun

cape m (plural capes, diminutive capeje n)

  1. A cape.
    Synonym: mantel

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

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

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Indonesian

Adjective

cape

  1. (slang) tired

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

cape f

  1. plural of capa

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cape

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of capiō

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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

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

Noun

cape f

  1. plural of capa

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

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)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

cape

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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.

Swedish

Noun

cape c

  1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Declension

Declension of cape
nominative genitive
singular indefinite cape capes
definite capeen capeens
plural indefinite capeer capeers
definite capeerna capeernas
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