capeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kāp, IPA^(key): /keɪp/
• 韻: -eɪp

語源 1

Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput (“head”).

名詞

cape (複数形 capes)

1. (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

   Synonyms: chersonese, peninsula, point

派生語

語源 2

From French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”). The second sense is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes.

A young woman in a crocheted cape.

名詞

cape (複数形 capes)

1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (slang) A superhero.
   • 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One, Diversion Books (→ISBN):

     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 ...

派生語

• cape for (スラング)
• capeshit

派生した語

• → Japanese: ケープ (kēpu)

参考

• cloak

動詞

cape (三人称単数 現在形 capes, 現在分詞 caping, 過去形および過去分詞形 caped)

1. To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
   • 2013, Odie Hawkins, The Black Matador, "Sugar" (AuthorHouse, →ISBN), page 140:

     “I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve."

2. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.

   The ship capes southwest by south.

3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
4. (Should we move, merge or split⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (US, slang) To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
   • 2016, Ken Makin, "Clinton-Trump debacle underscores gross misunderstanding of politics", Urban Pro Weekly, 6 October - 12 October 2016, page 5:

     A lot of African-Americans believe the answer is Clinton, mostly because "she's not Trump" and because President Barack Obama is shamelessly caping for her.

   • 2017, Laila Nur, quoted in Jordan Green, "Far-right groups converge behind anti-sharia message in Raleigh", Triad City Beat, 14 June - 20 June 2017, page 9:

     Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.

   • 2019, Julian Lutz, "Elizabeth Warren has authenticity", The Hawk (Saint Joseph's University), 3 April 2019, page 8:

     […] Biden is the old man who once caped for systematic racism; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cape.

語源 3

From Middle English capen (“to stare, gape, look for, seek”), from 古期英語 capian (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Cognate with Dutch gapen, German gaffen (“to stare at curiously, rubberneck”), Low German gapen (“to stare”). Related to keep.

動詞

cape (三人称単数 現在形 capes, 現在分詞 caping, 過去形および過去分詞形 caped)

1. (obsolete) To look for, search after.

   Long may they search ere that they find that they after cape.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

2. (まれに, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

   The captain just caped mindlessly into the distance as his ship was hit by volley after volley.

   This Nicholas ever caped upward into the air.

   (Geoffrey Chaucer)

参照

• The Middle English Dictionary

アナグラム

• APEC, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace