cap – English noun declension

English noun forms of cap

Noun: cap
Singularcap
Pluralcaps

Sample Sentences

  • The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
  • That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white,
  • “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight”
  • That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small,
  • “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!” [1847 September 11, William J. Thoms, “The Folk-lore of Shakespeare”, in The Athenaeum, London, page 958, column 1:]
  • He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
  • He had golden caps on his teeth.
  • There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
  • We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
  • The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed. [2022 September 2, Alex Lawson, “G7 countries agree plan to impose price cap on Russian oil”, in The Guardian:]
  • Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
  • He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
  • Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon? [2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon:]
  • no cap
  • that’s cap
  • Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
  • "By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps." [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
  • Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps. [2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):]
  • Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue. [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 93, column 2:]
  • He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, volume 1, London: Thomas Tegg and Son, published 1837, page 9:]
  • the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
  • flat cap; foolscap; legal cap

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
5. Proto-Indo-European *káput
6. Proto-Italic *kaput
7. Latin caput
8. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
10. Proto-Italic *-elos
11. Latin -ulum
12. Latin capitulum
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
14. Proto-Indo-European *-is
15. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
16. Proto-Italic *-ālis
17. Latin -ālis
18. Latin -āris
19. Latin -āre
20. Latin capitulāre?
21. Late Latin cappabor.
22. Proto-West Germanic *kappā
23. Proto-West Germanic *kappijā
24. Old English cæppe
25. Middle English cappe
26. English cap
27. Inherited from Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Proto-West Germanic *kappā (“covering, hood, mantle”), from Late Latin cappa, itself from Latin caput. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope. See: Middle English Nouns 'cappe', Old English Nouns 'cæppe', Latin Nouns 'caput'.

Verbs referencing "cap"

English Nouns capital, Russian Nouns кэп.