different between cloak vs capote

English

Alternative forms

• cloke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.

Doublet of clock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Noun

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86,^[1]

     […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,

     The little shepherd in his white capote

     Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   • 1967, Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb (translators), The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359,^[2]

     It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.

     The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308,^[3]

     Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

Synonyms

• cappo

Derived terms

• capoted

Anagrams

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.p?t/

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. greatcoat
2. (of a car) soft top
3. (slang) Ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”)

Derived terms

• capoter
• décapoter

Descendants

• ? English: capote
• ? Portuguese: capote

Verb

capote

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

See also

• capot

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• écopât

Italian

Etymology

capo- +?

Noun

capote f (invariable)

1. bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
2. soft top

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (figuratively) disguise
3. (slang) condom

Verb

capote

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters

Derived terms

• echar un capote

Yola

Noun

capote

1. greatcoat

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN