different between caper vs antic

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ke?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ke?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)
• Hyphenation: ca?per

Etymology 1

Clipping of capriole.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. A jump while dancing.
3. A prank or practical joke.
4. (usually in plural) Playful behaviour.
5. (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.

Derived terms

• cut a caper

Related terms

• cab
• caprine

Translations

Verb

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)

1. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch kaper.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kápparis).

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
2. A plant of the genus Capparis.

   Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

Derived terms

• caperberry

Translations

Further reading

• caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

French

Etymology

From English cap + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pe/

Verb

caper

1. (finance) to cap (set a limit to)
2. (sports) to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)

Conjugation

Indonesian

Etymology

From blend of cari (“seeking”) +? perhatian (“attention”), from calque of English attention-seeking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??ap?r]
• Hyphenation: ca?pêr

Adjective

capêr (plural caper-caper)

1. (colloquial, acronym) attention-seeking.

Further reading

• “caper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.per/, [?käp?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.per/, [?k??p?r]

Noun

caper m (genitive capr?); second declension

1. a male goat, billy goat

   Synonym: hircus

2. vocative singular of caper

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• caper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caper in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capere.

Verb

caper

1. to seize

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

caper m

1. indefinite plural of cape

English

Alternative forms

• antick

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n't?k, IPA^(key): /?æn.t?k/
• Rhymes: -ænt?k

Etymology 1

Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.

Adjective

antic (comparative more antic, superlative most antic)

1. Playful, funny, absurd
2. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
3. (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
4. Obsolete form of antique.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
2. A caricature.
3. (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
   • 2007, Jeph Jacques, Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951

     Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

4. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

Translations

Verb

antic (third-person singular simple present antics, present participle anticking, simple past and past participle anticked)

1. (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
2. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
3. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 70:

     She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.

Translations

Etymology 2

From anticipation.

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• antic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• actin, actin', actin-, cain't, can it

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan antic, from Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n?tik/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /an?tik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

antic (feminine antiga, masculine plural antics, feminine plural antigues)

1. old

Derived terms

Related terms

• antiguitat

See also

• vell

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ant?quus. Compare the inherited antive (from the Latin feminine ant?qua, which influenced the masculine equivalent form antif; compare also the evolution of Spanish antiguo).

Adjective

antic m (oblique and nominative feminine singular antique)

1. ancient; very old

Descendants

• English: antique (borrowing)
• French: antique

See also

• ancien
• viel

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Adjective

antic

1. ancient; very old
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric

     Anc no vitz ome tan antic

     I've never seen a man so old

Descendants

• Catalan: antic
• Occitan: antic

See also

• vielh

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique, from Latin antiquus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.tik/, /an?tik/

Adjective

antic m or n (feminine singular antic?, masculine plural antici, feminine and neuter plural antice)

1. ancient

Declension

Noun

antic m (plural antici)

1. ancient

Declension

See also

• vechi
• demodat
• versat
• vetust