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. (まれに) To wear a cape.
   • 2017, April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One (Diversion Books, →ISBN):

     Calamity tells me about the adventures she's had caping around the city, and I tell her about how I transitioned. When I tell her about David, and how he suddenly became a jerk overnight, she surprises me by nodding along.

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 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, EPAC, EPCA, PACE, PECA, Pace, pace

Latin

動詞

cape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of capiō

参照

• cape in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)