capon

See also: Capon, capón, and ĉapon

English

Etymology

From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin capo, caponem (Vulgar Latin *cappo), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪpən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

capon (plural capons)

1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     […] You cannot feed capons so.

Derived terms

• Yarmouth capon

Translations

cockerel grown for food

• Afrikaans: kapoen (af)
• Breton: kabon (br)
• Bulgarian: кастриран петел (kastriran petel)
• Catalan: capó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鏾雞／𫔌鸡 (sin³ gai¹)

  Mandarin: 閹雞／阉鸡 (zh) (yānjī)

• Czech: kapoun (cs)
• Danish: kapun
• Dutch: kapoen (nl) m
• Esperanto: kapono
• Faroese: geldur hani
• Finnish: salvukukko, kapuuni (fi)
• French: chapon (fr) m
• Friulian: cjapon m
• Galician: capón (gl) m
• German: Kapaun (de) m
• Greek: καπόνι (el) n (kapóni)
• Hungarian: kappan (hu)
• Icelandic: geldhani
• Ido: kapono (io)
• Italian: cappone (it) m
• Latin: capo
• Latvian: ramits gailis
• Lithuanian: romytas gaidys
• Norman: chapon m
• Norwegian: kapun
• Occitan: capon m
• Polish: kapłon (pl) m
• Portuguese: capão (pt) m
• Romagnol: gapôn m
• Romanian: clapon (ro) m, căpun m (archaic, obsolete), copun m (archaic, obsolete)
• Russian: каплу́н (ru) m (kaplún)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: копун

  Roman: kopun (sh)

• Spanish: capón m
• Swedish: kapun (sv)
• Venetian: capón m, capon (vec) m
• Volapük: hogok (vo), (older term, obsolete) ömgok
• Welsh: capwllt, capwrn
• Xhosa: inkabi yenkuku
• Zulu: iqhude elitheniweyo

Verb

capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

Anagrams

• Ponca, capno-, no cap, pocan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

capon (feminine caponne, masculine plural capons, feminine plural caponnes)

1. (derogatory) cowardly

Noun

capon m (plural capons)

1. (derogatory) coward

Synonyms

• couard
• lâche
• poltron

Further reading

• “capon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

capon

1. Alternative form of capoun

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cāppo.

Noun

capon oblique singular, m (oblique plural capons, nominative singular capons, nominative plural capon)

1. capon (castrated cockerel)

Venetian

Alternative forms

• capón

Etymology

See capón.

Noun

capon m (plural caponi) or capon m (plural capuni)

1. capon

Related terms

• caponar