Noun: cape
Sample Sentences
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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. [1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:]
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Rows and rows of booths and pavilions stretch across the floor, draped with glowing holograms and shifting signs beckoning capes to try their wares. Bystander insurance. Hypertech components. Mystical ingredients. Training DVDs ... [2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One, Diversion Books, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like cape
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English cape, gappe, cap, from Old French cap (“cape, headland”), from Latin caput (“head”). Compare Old Norse kobbi (“islet, small cape”).
2. Doublet of capo, caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head and Howth.
3. For sense development, compare English ness (“a promontory point, cape”) from a root related to nose, Bulgarian нос (nos) (the same PIE root). Also compare coast (<< Latin costa). See: Middle English Nouns '
cape', Latin Nouns '
caput', Old Norse Nouns '
kobbi'.
Verbs referencing "cape"
Dutch Nouns
cape, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
cape, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
cape, Swedish Nouns
cape, Spanish Nouns
capa, German Nouns
Kap, German Nouns
Cape.