capon

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See also: Capon, capón, and ĉapon

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

capon (plural capons)

  1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

  1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

capon (feminine caponne, masculine plural capons, feminine plural caponnes)

  1. (derogatory) cowardly

Noun

capon m (plural capons)

  1. (derogatory) coward

Synonyms

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

capon

  1. Alternative form of capoun

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cāppo.

Noun

capon oblique singular, m (oblique plural capons, nominative singular capons, nominative plural capon)

  1. capon (castrated cockerel)

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

See capón.

Noun

capon m (plural caponi) or capon m (plural capuni)

  1. capon

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