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Definitions and meaning of cape
cape
Pronunciation
enPR: kāp, IPA(key): /keɪp/
Rhymes: -eɪp
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Frenchcap, from Occitancap, from Latincaput(“head”). Doublet of caput, chef, andchief, and distantly with head.
Noun
cape (pluralcapes)
(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
Translations
Etymology 2
From Frenchcape, from Old Occitancapa, from Late Latincappa(“cape”). The second sense ("superhero") is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes. Likewise, the verb sense "defend, praise" alludes to the stereotypical depiction of superheroes wearing capes when they come to people's defense. (Compare caped crusader.) Doublet of capa and cappa.
Noun
cape (pluralcapes)
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
(slang) A superhero.
Usage notes
Some authors distinguish capes from cloaks, especially by saying capes are shorter or sometimes that cloaks have hoods (cowls) or are of thicker material for dealing with cold or wet weather, but the terms are generally interchanged. For example, the traditional Inverness cape is thick for inclement weather and reaches to the calf, James Robinson Planché's 1879 Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress includes some capes with hoods, and Batman's cape has a cowl today and, like Dracula's and Superman's capes, typically reaches to the calf if not to the ground.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
cloak
Verb
cape (third-person singular simple presentcapes, present participlecaping, simple past and past participlecaped)
To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
The ship capes southwest by south.
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
(US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
2017, Laila Nur, quoted in Jordan Green, "Far-right groups converge behind anti-sharia message in Raleigh", Triad City Beat, 14 June - 20 June 2017, page 9:
Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.
2017, Mindy Isser [organizer], quoted by Aubrey Whelan [journalist] in "For Philly's socialists, election wins signal momentum", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 November 2017:
"I can't believe I'm out here caping for a politician."
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cape.
(transitive) To cover (as) with or like a cape.
Anagrams
APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈt͡sapɛ]
Verb
cape
third-person singular present of capat
Synonym:capá
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishcape.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /keːp/
Hyphenation: cape
Rhymes: -eːp
Noun
capem (pluralcapes, diminutivecapejen)
A cape.
Synonym:mantel
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitancapa, from Late Latincappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kap/
Homophones: capent, capes
Noun
capef (pluralcapes)
cape
Derived terms
de cape et d’épée
rire sous cape
Descendants
→ English: cape (see there for further descendants)
“cape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Verb
cape
inflection of capar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Indonesian
Adjective
cape
(colloquial, slang)alternative spelling of capek
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈka.pe/
Rhymes: -ape
Hyphenation: cà‧pe
Noun
capef
plural of capa
Anagrams
Pace, pace
Latin
Verb
cape
second-person singular present active imperative of capiō
References
cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
cape
Alternative form of cappe
Etymology 2
Noun
cape
Alternative form of cope
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkapə/
Noun
capef
plural of capa
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Englishcape, from Frenchcape, from Late Latincappa. Cognate with kappe(“cloak”), kåpe(“cloak”), kapp(“cape, headland”).