cape

Meanings

Noun

• A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
• A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
• A superhero.

Verb

• To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
• To head or point; to keep a course.
• To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
• To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
• To look for, search after.
• To gaze or stare.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French cap, from Occitan cap, from Latin caput ("head").
• 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.
• Image:Pelerine1911.jpg|thumb|A young woman in a crocheted cape.
• From Middle English capen ("to stare, gape, look for, seek"), from Old English 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.