# caper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkeɪpɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkeɪpə/
* Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: ca‧per
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

Clipping of capriole.

#### Noun

caper (plural capers)
* A playful leap or jump.
* A jump while dancing.
* A prank or practical joke.
* (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
* (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?

##### Derived terms

* caper-cutting
* caper cutting
* caper merchant
* capersome
* cut a caper

##### Related terms

* cab
* caprine

##### Translations
#### Verb

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)
* 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.
* To jump as part of a dance.
* To engage in playful behaviour.

##### Derived terms

* caperer
* outcaper

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Dutch kaper.

#### Noun

caper (plural capers)
* A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

caper (plural capers)
* The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
    Synonym: caperberry
* A plant of the genus Capparis.
    Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

##### Derived terms

* bean-caper
* caperberry
* caper sauce
* caper spurge

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

#### Noun

caper (plural capers)
* (Scotland) The capercaillie.

##### Translations
### See also

* north-caper

### Anagrams

* Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

## French
### Etymology

From English cap +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.pe/

### Verb

caper
* (finance) to cap (set a limit to)
* (sports) to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)

#### Conjugation
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From blend of cari (“seeking”) +‎ perhatian (“attention”), from calque of English attention-seeking.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡ʃapər]
* Hyphenation: ca‧pêr

### Adjective

capêr
* (colloquial, acronym) attention-seeking.

### Further reading

* “caper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäpɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.per/, [ˈkäːper]

### Noun

caper m (genitive caprī, feminine capra); second declension
* he-goat (a male goat, a billy goat)
    Synonyms: buccus, hircus

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

#### Coordinate terms

* buccus
* haedus
* hircus

#### Related terms

* capellus
* capra
* caprigenus
* omnicarpus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: capro, ⇒ caprone
* Gallo-Romance:
** ⇒ French: chevron
*** → English: chevron
*** → Russian: шеврон (ševron)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Portuguese: cabro, ⇒ cabrão
** Spanish: cabro, ⇒ cabrón
* Borrowings:
** → Scottish Gaelic: cabar

### References

* “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capere.

### Verb

caper
* to seize

#### Conjugation

* Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

caper m
* indefinite plural of cape

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappero.

### Noun

caper m (plural caperi)
* caper (a plant)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

caper
* indefinite plural of cape