different between cape vs burnou

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?p, IPA^(key): /ke?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

cape (plural capes)

1. (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 French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”). The second sense is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes.

Noun

cape (plural capes)

1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (slang) A superhero.
   • 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One, Diversion Books (?ISBN):

     Rows and rows of booths and pavilions stretch across the floor, draped with glowing holograms and shifting signs beckoning capes to try their wares. Bystander insurance. Hypertech components. Mystical ingredients. Training DVDs ...

Derived terms

• cape for (slang)
• capeshit

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (k?pu)

Translations

See also

• cloak

Verb

cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)

1. To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
   • 2013, Odie Hawkins, The Black Matador, "Sugar" (AuthorHouse, ?ISBN), page 140:

     “I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve."

2. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.

   The ship capes southwest by south.

3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
4. (Should we move, merge or split⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (US, slang) To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
   • 2016, Ken Makin, "Clinton-Trump debacle underscores gross misunderstanding of politics", Urban Pro Weekly, 6 October - 12 October 2016, page 5:

     A lot of African-Americans believe the answer is Clinton, mostly because "she's not Trump" and because President Barack Obama is shamelessly caping for her.

   • 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.

   • 2019, Julian Lutz, "Elizabeth Warren has authenticity", The Hawk (Saint Joseph's University), 3 April 2019, page 8:

     […] Biden is the old man who once caped for systematic racism; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cape.

Etymology 3

From Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from Old English capian (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kap?n. Cognate with Dutch gapen, German gaffen (“to stare at curiously, rubberneck”), Low German gapen (“to stare”). Related to keep.

Verb

cape (third-person singular simple present capes, present participle caping, simple past and past participle caped)

1. (obsolete) To look for, search after.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

2. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?p/
• Hyphenation: cape
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

cape m (plural capes, diminutive capeje n)

1. A cape.

   Synonym: mantel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (compare the inherited doublet chape; cf. also the Old Northern French variant cape).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap/
• Homophones: capent, capes

Noun

cape f (plural capes)

1. cape

Derived terms

• de cape et d'épée
• rire sous cape

Verb

cape

1. first-person singular present indicative of caper
2. third-person singular present indicative of caper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of caper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of caper
5. second-person singular imperative of caper

Further reading

• “cape” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Adjective

cape

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of capek

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

cape f

1. plural of capa

Anagrams

• pace

Latin

Verb

cape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of capi?

References

• cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cæppe.

Noun

cape

1. Alternative form of cappe

Etymology 2

From Latin c?pa, potentially through an Old English *c?pa.

Noun

cape

1. Alternative form of cope

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kkap?/

Noun

cape f

1. plural of capa

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”), kapp (“cape, headland”).

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural caper, definite plural capene)

1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

• “cape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “cape” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun

cape m (definite singular capen, indefinite plural capar, definite plural capane)

1. a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)

References

• “cape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -api

Verb

cape

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of capar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of capar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of capar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of capar

Spanish

Verb

cape

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of capar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of capar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of capar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of capar.

Swedish

Noun

cape c

1. cape (sleeveless garment used by women)

Declension

English

Noun

burnou (plural burnous)

1. A cape with a hood made of wool, of Algerian origin, used as a baby garment, popular with French mothers from the early 20th century through the 1960s.

Related terms

• burnoose

References

• Algerian baby garment: [1]