caporal
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
caporal (uncountable)
- A type of shag tobacco.
- 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 7:
- She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
caporal (plural caporals)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [kə.puˈɾal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kə.poˈɾal]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ka.poˈɾal]
- Rhymes: -al
Noun edit
caporal m (plural caporals)
Further reading edit
- “caporal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “caporal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “caporal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “caporal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian caporale.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caporal m (plural caporaux, feminine caporale)
Further reading edit
- “caporal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
caporal m (apocopated)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French caporal, from Italian caporale, from capo (“chief”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ca‧po‧ral
Noun edit
caporal m (plural caporais)
- (Portugal, military) former military rank, between corporal and sergeant
Adjective edit
caporal m or f (plural caporais)
- designating a quality of chopped tobacco
References edit
- ^ “caporal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
caporal m (plural caporali)
Declension edit
Declension of caporal
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) caporal | caporalul | (niște) caporali | caporalii |
genitive/dative | (unui) caporal | caporalului | (unor) caporali | caporalilor |
vocative | caporalule | caporalilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian caporale.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caporal m (plural caporales)
Further reading edit
- “caporal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014