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capon

name · noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪpən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K EY1 P AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To castrate; to make a capon of.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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4

noun

Meaning 4

castrated male chicken

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: chicken, Gallus gallus

5

noun

Meaning 5

flesh of a castrated male chicken

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

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Broader terms: chicken, poulet, volaille

History

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

Across languages

Translations

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kapoen — cockerel grown for food
  • Breton: kabon — cockerel grown for food
  • Bulgarian: кастриран петел (kastriran petel) — cockerel grown for food
  • Catalan: capó — cockerel grown for food
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鏾雞 /𫔌鸡 — cockerel grown for food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 閹雞 /阉鸡 (yānjī) — cockerel grown for food
  • Czech: kapoun — cockerel grown for food
  • Danish: kapun — cockerel grown for food
  • Dutch: kapoen — cockerel grown for food
  • Esperanto: kapono — cockerel grown for food
  • Faroese: geldur hani — cockerel grown for food
  • Finnish: salvukukko — cockerel grown for food
  • Finnish: kapuuni — cockerel grown for food
  • French: chapon — cockerel grown for food
  • Friulian: cjapon — cockerel grown for food
  • Galician: capón — cockerel grown for food
  • German: Kapaun — cockerel grown for food
  • Greek: καπόνι (kapóni) — cockerel grown for food
  • Hungarian: kappan — cockerel grown for food
  • Icelandic: geldhani — cockerel grown for food
  • Ido: kapono — cockerel grown for food
  • Italian: cappone — cockerel grown for food
  • Latin: capo — cockerel grown for food
  • Latvian: ramits gailis — cockerel grown for food
  • Lithuanian: romytas gaidys — cockerel grown for food
  • Middle English: capoun — cockerel grown for food
  • Norman: chapon — cockerel grown for food
  • Norwegian: kapun — cockerel grown for food
  • Occitan: capon — cockerel grown for food
  • Old English: capūn — cockerel grown for food
  • Polish: kapłon — cockerel grown for food
  • Portuguese: capão — cockerel grown for food
  • Romagnol: gapôn — cockerel grown for food
  • Romanian: clapon — cockerel grown for food
  • Romanian: căpun — cockerel grown for food
  • Romanian: copun — cockerel grown for food
  • Russian: каплу́н (kaplún) — cockerel grown for food
  • Serbo-Croatian: копун — cockerel grown for food
  • Serbo-Croatian: kopun — cockerel grown for food
  • Spanish: capón — cockerel grown for food
  • Swedish: kapun — cockerel grown for food
  • Venetan: capón — cockerel grown for food
  • Venetan: capon — cockerel grown for food
  • Volapük: hogok — cockerel grown for food
  • Volapük: ömgok — cockerel grown for food
  • Welsh: capwllt — cockerel grown for food
  • Welsh: capwrn — cockerel grown for food
  • Xhosa: inkabi yenkuku — cockerel grown for food
  • Zulu: iqhude elitheniweyo — cockerel grown for food