capon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin capo, caponem (Vulgar Latin *cappo), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
capon (plural capons)
- A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- […] You cannot feed capons so.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
cockerel grown for food
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Verb[edit]
capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)
- (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
capon (feminine caponne, masculine plural capons, feminine plural caponnes)
Noun[edit]
capon m (plural capons)
Synonyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “capon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
capon
- Alternative form of capoun
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *cāppo.
Noun[edit]
capon oblique singular, m (oblique plural capons, nominative singular capons, nominative plural capon)
Venetian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See capón.
Noun[edit]
capon m (plural caponi) or capon m (plural capuni)
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