caper
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpə/
- Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ca‧per
Audio (US): (file)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
caper (plural capers)
- A playful leap or jump.
- A jump while dancing.
- A prank or practical joke.
- (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
- (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
- 2022, Jennifer Egan, “i, the Protagonist”, in The Candy House:
- His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?
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Verb edit
caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)
- To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.
- To jump as part of a dance.
- To engage in playful behaviour.
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
caper (plural capers)
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Etymology 3 edit
From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis).
Noun edit
caper (plural capers)
- The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
- Synonym: caperberry
- A plant of the genus Capparis.
- Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry
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Further reading edit
Etymology 4 edit
Shortening of capercaillie.
Noun edit
caper (plural capers)
- (Scotland) The capercaillie.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
caper
- (finance) to cap (set a limit to)
- (sports) to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | caper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | capant /ka.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | capé /ka.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cape /kap/ |
capes /kap/ |
cape /kap/ |
capons /ka.pɔ̃/ |
capez /ka.pe/ |
capent /kap/ |
imperfect | capais /ka.pɛ/ |
capais /ka.pɛ/ |
capait /ka.pɛ/ |
capions /ka.pjɔ̃/ |
capiez /ka.pje/ |
capaient /ka.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | capai /ka.pe/ |
capas /ka.pa/ |
capa /ka.pa/ |
capâmes /ka.pam/ |
capâtes /ka.pat/ |
capèrent /ka.pɛʁ/ | |
future | caperai /ka.pʁe/ |
caperas /ka.pʁa/ |
capera /ka.pʁa/ |
caperons /ka.pʁɔ̃/ |
caperez /ka.pʁe/ |
caperont /ka.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | caperais /ka.pʁɛ/ |
caperais /ka.pʁɛ/ |
caperait /ka.pʁɛ/ |
caperions /ka.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
caperiez /ka.pə.ʁje/ |
caperaient /ka.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cape /kap/ |
capes /kap/ |
cape /kap/ |
capions /ka.pjɔ̃/ |
capiez /ka.pje/ |
capent /kap/ |
imperfect2 | capasse /ka.pas/ |
capasses /ka.pas/ |
capât /ka.pa/ |
capassions /ka.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
capassiez /ka.pa.sje/ |
capassent /ka.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cape /kap/ |
— | capons /ka.pɔ̃/ |
capez /ka.pe/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From blend of cari (“seeking”) + perhatian (“attention”), from calque of English attention-seeking.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
capêr
Further reading edit
- “caper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäːper]
Noun edit
caper m (genitive caprī, feminine capra); second declension
- he-goat (a male goat, a billy goat)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | caper | caprī |
Genitive | caprī | caprōrum |
Dative | caprō | caprīs |
Accusative | caprum | caprōs |
Ablative | caprō | caprīs |
Vocative | caper | caprī |
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
caper
- to seize
Conjugation edit
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | simple | caper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | capant | |||||
compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past participle | capé | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cape | capes | cape | capons | capez | capent |
imperfect | capois, capoys | capois, capoys | capoit, capoyt | capions, capyons | capiez, capyez | capoient, capoyent | |
past historic | capa | capas | capa | capasmes | capastes | caperent | |
future | caperai, caperay | caperas | capera | caperons | caperez | caperont | |
conditional | caperois, caperoys | caperois, caperoys | caperoit, caperoyt | caperions, caperyons | caperiez, caperyez | caperoient, caperoyent | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cape | capes | cape | capons | capez | capent |
imperfect | capasse | capasses | capast | capassions | capassiez | capassent | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cape | — | capons | capez | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
caper m
- indefinite plural of cape
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian cappero.
Noun edit
caper m (plural caperi)
- caper (a plant)
Declension edit
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