capon
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) (file)
Noun
capon (plural capons)
- 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
Translations
cockerel grown for food
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “capon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cāppo.
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