capon

Meanings

Noun

Verb

Origin

  • From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin capo (Vulgar Latin *cappo), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- ("to strike, to beat").

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