capón
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Feira do capón ("the capon fair"), Vilalba
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese capon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Portuguese capão and Spanish capón.
Pronunciation
Noun
capón m (plural capóns)
- capon
- 1348, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 72:
- It. mando que den .CCC. mrs. porllas almas daquelles a que tomey capon ou gallina ou carne que non pagase.
- Item, I order that they shall give 300 maravedis for the souls of them from whom I took capon or hen or meat that I didn't pay
- faggot, bundle
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “capon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “capo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “capón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
From a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Catalan capó, English capon, French chapon, Italian cappone, Portuguese capão.
Pronunciation
Adjective
capón (feminine capona, masculine plural capones, feminine plural caponas)
Related terms
Noun
capón m (plural capones)
Descendants
Further reading
- “capón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Venetan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Italian cappone.
Noun
capón m (plural capóni)