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English
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)
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] You cannot feed capons so.
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Translations
Verb
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
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
capon (feminine caponne, masculine plural capons, feminine plural caponnes)
- (derogatory) cowardly
Noun
capon m (plural capons)
- (derogatory) coward
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Further reading
Middle English
Noun
capon
- 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)
- capon (castrated cockerel)
Venetan
Etymology
See capón.
Noun
capon m (plural caponi) or capon m (plural capuni)
- capon