caperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of capriole.

名詞

caper (複数形 capers)

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. A jump while dancing.
3. A prank or practical joke.
4. (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
5. (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
   • 2022, Jennifer Egan, “i, the Protagonist”, in The Candy House:

     His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?

派生語

関連する語

• cab
• caprine

動詞

caper (三人称単数 現在形 capers, 現在分詞 capering, 過去形および過去分詞形 capered)

1. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.

2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.

語源 2

From Dutch kaper.

名詞

caper (複数形 capers)

1. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

語源 3

From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis).

名詞

caper (複数形 capers)

1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
2. A plant of the genus Capparis.

   Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

派生語

Further reading

• caper on Wikipedia.

語源 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

名詞

caper (複数形 capers)

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

参考

• north-caper

アナグラム

• Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäpɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäːper]

名詞

caper m (genitive caprī); second declension

1. a male goat, billy goat

   Synonym: hircus

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative 単数形 in -er).

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参照

• “caper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “caper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caper”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray