caper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪpɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪpə/
• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ca‧per

Etymology 1

Shortening of capriole.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. A jump while dancing.
3. A prank or practical joke.
4. (usually in plural) Playful behaviour.
5. A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.

Derived terms

• cut a caper

Related terms

• cab
• caprine

Translations

playful leap

• Bulgarian: подскачане (bg) n (podskačane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: kapriool c
• Finnish: loikka (fi)
• Hungarian: ugrálás, ugrabugrálás, ugrabugra, ugrándozás
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sobbalzo (it) m, saltellamento m
• Romanian: salt (ro) n, săritură (ro) f, tumbă (ro) f, țopăit (ro) n
• Russian: скачо́к (ru) m (skačók), прыжо́к (ru) m (pryžók), коле́нце (ru) n (kolénce)
• Spanish: cabriola (es) f
• Swedish: glädjesprång n, glädjeskutt n

crime — see crime

Verb

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)

1. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.

Translations

to jump about playfully

• Bulgarian: подскачам (bg) (podskačam), подрипвам (bg) (podripvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: opspringen (nl),bokkesprong maken
• Finnish: loikkia (fi), pomppia (fi)
• Hebrew: לקפץ (lekapétz)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: ugrál (hu), ugrabugrál, ugrándozik (hu)
• Italian: saltellare (it)
• Maori: pōteketeke, pōtēteke
• Romanian: sări (ro), zburda (ro), țopăi (ro)
• Russian: скака́ть (ru) (skakátʹ)
• Swedish: skutta (sv)

Etymology 2

From Dutch kaper.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

Translations

Dutch vessel — see privateer

Etymology 3

From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis).

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
2. A plant of the genus Capparis.

   Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

Derived terms

• caperberry

Translations

pickled bud of Capparis spinosa

• Catalan: tàpera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水瓜柳 (shuǐguāliǔ)

• Danish: kapers
• Dutch: kappertje (nl) n
• Estonian: kappar
• Finnish: kapris (fi)
• French: câpre (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯონჯოლი (ǯonǯoli)
• German: Kaper (de) f
• Greek: κάπαρη (el) f (kápari)

  Ancient: κάππαρις f (kápparis)

• Hungarian: kapribogyó (hu)
• Icelandic: kapers (is)
• Irish: capras m
• Italian: cappero (it) m
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• Korean: 케이퍼 (keipeo)
• Latin: capparis f
• Norwegian: kapers pl
• Persian: کبر (fa) (kabar)
• Polish: kapar (pl)
• Portuguese: alcaparra (pt) f
• Romanian: caperă (ro) f
• Russian: ка́перс (ru) m (kápers)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏па̄р m, ка̏пра f

  Roman: kȁpār (sh) m, kȁpra (sh) f

• Slovene: kapra (sl) f
• Spanish: alcaparra (es) f
• Swedish: kapris (sv)
• Turkish: gebre (tr)
• Welsh: caprysen f, capryn m
• Yiddish: קאַפּער m (kaper)

plant

• Bulgarian: каперсник m (kapersnik)
• Catalan: taperera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水瓜柳 (shuǐguāliǔ)

• Finnish: kapris (fi)
• German: Kapernstrauch m
• Greek: κάπαρη (el) f (kápari)

  Ancient: κάππαρις f (kápparis)

• Hungarian: kapri (hu)
• Irish: tor caprais m
• Italian: cappero (it) m
• Korean: 케이퍼 (keipeo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: کبر (fa) (kabar), کبار (fa) (kobbār)
• Polish: kapar (pl) m
• Romanian: caper (ro) m
• Russian: ка́перс (ru) m (kápers)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏па̄р m, ка̏пра f

  Roman: kȁpār (sh) m, kȁpra (sh) f

• Spanish: alcaparro (es) m
• Swedish: kapris (sv)
• Turkish: gebre otu (tr)
• Welsh: llwyn caprys m

Further reading

• caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

Translations

capercaillie — see capercaillie

Anagrams

• Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

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French

Etymology

From English cap + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pe/

Verb

caper

1. (finance) to cap (set a limit to)
2. (sports) to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)

Conjugation

Conjugation of caper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	capant /ka.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		capé /ka.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cape /kap/	capes /kap/	cape /kap/	capons /ka.pɔ̃/	capez /ka.pe/	capent /kap/
	imperfect	capais /ka.pɛ/	capais /ka.pɛ/	capait /ka.pɛ/	capions /ka.pjɔ̃/	capiez /ka.pje/	capaient /ka.pɛ/
	past historic2	capai /ka.pe/	capas /ka.pa/	capa /ka.pa/	capâmes /ka.pam/	capâtes /ka.pat/	capèrent /ka.pɛʁ/
	future	caperai /ka.pʁe/	caperas /ka.pʁa/	capera /ka.pʁa/	caperons /ka.pʁɔ̃/	caperez /ka.pʁe/	caperont /ka.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caperais /ka.pʁɛ/	caperais /ka.pʁɛ/	caperait /ka.pʁɛ/	caperions /ka.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	caperiez /ka.pə.ʁje/	caperaient /ka.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cape /kap/	capes /kap/	cape /kap/	capions /ka.pjɔ̃/	capiez /ka.pje/	capent /kap/
	imperfect2	capasse /ka.pas/	capasses /ka.pas/	capât /ka.pa/	capassions /ka.pa.sjɔ̃/	capassiez /ka.pa.sje/	capassent /ka.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cape /kap/	—	capons /ka.pɔ̃/	capez /ka.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Indonesian

Etymology

From blend Blend of cari (“seeking”) +‎ perhatian (“attention”), from calque of English attention-seeking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃapər]
• Hyphenation: ca‧pêr

Adjective

capêr

1. (colloquial, acronym) attention-seeking.

Further reading

• “caper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäːper]

Noun

caper m (genitive caprī); second declension

1. a male goat, billy goat

   Synonym: hircus

2. vocative singular of caper

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caper	caprī
Genitive	caprī	caprōrum
Dative	caprō	caprīs
Accusative	caprum	caprōs
Ablative	caprō	caprīs
Vocative	caper	caprī

Derived terms

• caprimulgus

Related terms

• capellus
• capra

 

Descendants

• Italian: capro
• French: chevron
  • → English: chevron
• Spanish: cabro, cabrón

References

• “caper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capiō.

Verb

caper

1. to seize

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of caper

infinitive	simple	caper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	capant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		capé
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cape	capes	cape	capons	capez	capent
	imperfect	capois, capoys	capois, capoys	capoit, capoyt	capions, capyons	capiez, capyez	capoient, capoyent
	past historic	capa	capas	capa	capasmes	capastes	caperent
	future	caperai, caperay	caperas	capera	caperons	caperez	caperont
	conditional	caperois, caperoys	caperois, caperoys	caperoit, caperoyt	caperions, caperyons	caperiez, caperyez	caperoient, caperoyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cape	capes	cape	capons	capez	capent
	imperfect	capasse	capasses	capast	capassions	capassiez	capassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cape	—	capons	capez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

caper m

1. indefinite plural of cape