chapon

See also: Chapón

French

Etymology

From Middle French chappon, from Old French chapon, chiapun, from Vulgar Latin *cappō, cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Catalan capó, English capon, Italian cappone, Occitan capon, Portuguese capão, Spanish capón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.pɔ̃/

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Noun

chapon m (plural chapons)

1. capon (meat)

Further reading

• “chapon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

chapon

1. Alternative form of capoun

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French chapon.

Noun

chapon m (plural chapons)

1. (Jersey) capon