different between cape vs robe

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

Etymology

From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub? (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).

Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roub?n (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English r?af (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English r?afian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???b/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

robe (plural robes)

1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
2. (US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
3. A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
4. The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.

Derived terms

• bathrobe

Descendants

• ? Irish: róba
• ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb

Translations

Verb

robe (third-person singular simple present robes, present participle robing, simple past and past participle robed)

1. (transitive) To clothe; to dress.
2. (intransitive) To put on official vestments.

Synonyms

• (to clothe): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• berobed

Anagrams

• Bero, Boer, Ebor, Ebro, bore

Asturian

Verb

robe

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of robar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of robar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rob?/
• Rhymes: -ob?
• Hyphenation: ro?be

Noun

robe m

1. vocative singular of rob

Anagrams

• bore, oreb

Dutch

Etymology

From French robe.

Pronunciation

Noun

robe f (plural roben or robes, diminutive robetje n)

1. gown, robe

French

Etymology

Old French, from Proto-Germanic *raub? (“booty”), later "stolen clothing".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/

Noun

robe f (plural robes)

1. dress, frock
2. fur, coat (of an animal)

   Ce cheval a une robe isabelle.

3. wine's colour

Derived terms

Hypernyms

• habit
• vêtement

Descendants

• ? Dutch: robe
• ? German: Robe
  • ? Czech: róba

See also

• Les couleurs de la robe d'un cheval /The colors of horses' hair/ : alezan, aubère, bai, blanc, crème, gris, isabelle, noir, palomino, pie, rouan, souris.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bore, orbe

Italian

Noun

robe f

1. plural of roba

Anagrams

• orbe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roobe, rob, robbe

Etymology

From Old French robe, from Frankish *rouba, *rauba, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub?. Doublet of reif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??b(?)/, /?r?b(?)/

Noun

robe (plural robes)

1. robe (long loose garment):
   1. A robe as a symbol of rank or office.
   2. A robe as a spoil or booty of war; a robe given as a gift.
2. (as a plural) The garments an individual is wearing.

Derived terms

• roben
• warderobe

Descendants

• English: robe
  • ? Irish: róba
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb
• Scots: robe

References

• “r??be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war; robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub? (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *reup- (“to tear, peel”).

Noun

robe f (plural robes)

1. (Jersey) dress

   Synonym: fro

2. (Jersey) robe

Old French

Alternative forms

• robbe, reube

Etymology

From Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub? (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”).

Noun

robe f (oblique plural robes, nominative singular robe, nominative plural robes)

1. booty; spoils (chiefly of war)
2. piece of clothing
   • c. 1170,, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     [D]onez li [d]e voz robes que vos avez
     La mellor que vos i savez.

     Give her the clothes that you have

     The best that you know of.

Related terms

• robeor
• rober

Descendants

• Middle French: robe
  • French: robe
    • ? Dutch: robe
    • ? German: Robe
      • ? Czech: róba
• Norman: robe
• ? Middle English: robe, roobe, rob, robbe
  • English: robe
    • ? Irish: róba
    • ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb
  • Scots: robe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (robe)

Portuguese

Etymology

From French robe [de chambre].

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.b(?)/
• Hyphenation: ro?be

Noun

robe m (plural robes)

1. dressing gown

   Synonym: roupão

References

Spanish

Verb

robe

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