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Webster 1913 Edition

Capon

Ca′pon

(kā′p’n or kā′pŭn; 277)
,
Noun.
[OE.
capon
,
chapoun
, AS.
capūn
(cf. F.
chapon
), L.
capo
, fr. Gr.
κάπων
akin to
κόπτειν
to cut, OSlav.
skopiti
to castrate. Cf.
Comma
.]
A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
Shak.
The merry thought of a
capon
.
W. Irving.

Ca′pon

,
Verb.
T.
To castrate; to make a capon of.

Webster 1828 Edition

Capon

CAPON

,
Noun.
A castrated cock; a cock-chicken gelded as soon as he quits his dam, or as soon as he begins to crow.

CAPON

,
Verb.
T.
To castrate, as a cock.

Definition 2024

Capon

Capon

See also: capon, capón, and ĉapon

Zazaki

Proper noun

Capon

  1. A Japanese

capon

capon

See also: Capon, capón, and ĉapon

English

Noun

capon ‎(plural capons)

  1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

Translations

Verb

capon ‎(third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

  1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

Venetian

Alternative forms

Noun

capon m (plural caponi) or capon m (plural capuni)

  1. capon

Related terms

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman capon, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and Old English capūn, both from Latin capo, caponem, literally "to cut off," from Proto-Indo-European *kop- ‎(“to strike, to beat”).

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