different between capriole vs carriole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French capriole, from Italian capriola.

Noun

capriole (plural caprioles)

1. A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
2. A leap or caper, as in dancing.
   • 1595, John Davies, Orchestra

     With lofty turns and caprioles.

Verb

capriole (third-person singular simple present caprioles, present participle caprioling, simple past and past participle caprioled)

1. (intransitive) To leap; to caper.
2. (transitive) To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.
   • 1838, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott

     Brawny fighters, all cased in buff and iron, their hearts too sheathed in oak and triple brass, caprioled their huge war-horses, shook their death-doing spears; and went forth in the most determined manner, nothing doubting.

Anagrams

• polar ice

French

Noun

capriole f (plural caprioles)

1. (dressage) Dated form of cabriole.

Italian

Noun

capriole f

1. plural of capriola

Anagrams

• copiarle, percolai, piacerlo

English

Noun

carriole (plural carrioles)

1. Alternative spelling of cariole

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan carriola, from carri (“chariot”), from low Latin *carreum, variant of carrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.?j?l/

Noun

carriole f (plural carrioles)

1. cart
2. (Canada) sleigh

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

carriole f

1. plural of carriola

Anagrams

• ciarlerò
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