capon

Etymology

Borrowed 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/

Noun

capon (plural capons)

1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III scene 2

     [...] You cannot feed capons so.

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-, pocan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔ̃/

Adjective

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

1. (pejorative) cowardly

Noun

capon m, f (plural capons)

1. (pejorative) coward

Synonyms

• couard
• lâche
• poltron

Further reading

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

Alternative forms

• capón

Etymology

See capón.

Noun

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

1. capon