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5-letter words (4 found)

CAPER,CRAPE,PACER,RECAP,

4-letter words (14 found)

ACER,ACRE,APER,CAPE,CARE,CARP,CRAP,PACE,PARE,PEAR,PERC,RACE,RAPE,REAP,

3-letter words (18 found)

ACE,APE,ARC,ARE,CAP,CAR,CEP,EAR,ERA,PAC,PAR,PEA,PEC,PER,PRE,RAP,REC,REP,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,PA,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 44 words from caper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of caper

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Definitions and meaning of caper

caper

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧per

Etymology 1

Clipping 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 the plural) Playful behaviour.
  5. (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • cab
  • caprine
Translations

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

Etymology 2

From Dutch kaper.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

  2. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
Translations

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.
    Synonym: caperberry
  2. A plant of the genus Capparis.
    Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

  • caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

  1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.
Translations

See also

  • north-caper

Anagrams

  • Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From 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 Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

caper m (genitive caprī, feminine capra); second declension

  1. he-goat (a male goat, a billy goat)
    Synonyms: buccus, hircus

Declension

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

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Descendants

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

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capere.

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

caper m

  1. indefinite plural of cape

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappero.

Noun

caper m (plural caperi)

  1. caper (a plant)

Declension


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