caprice

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• /kəˈpɹiːs/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 P R IY1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Old Italian capo Proto-Indo-European *ǵhḗrder. Latin ērīcius Old Italian riccio Old Italian caporiccio Italian capricciobor. French capricebor. English caprice Borrowed from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”). Doublet of capriccio.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: tekë — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Albanian: trill — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Breton: froudenn — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Bulgarian: каприз (kapriz) — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Bulgarian: прищявка (prištjavka) — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Catalan: capritx — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Catalan: caprici — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Czech: rozmar — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Czech: vrtoch — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Czech: kapric — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Dutch: capriool — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Dutch: capriolen — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Esperanto: kaprico — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Finnish: heitto — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Finnish: möläys — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Finnish: oikku — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• French: caprice — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• German: Laune — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Ancient Greek: σχεδίασμα (skhedíasma) — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Icelandic: dyntur — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Icelandic: duttlungur — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Irish: fíbín — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Kalmyk: яр (yar) — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Latin: arbitrium — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Polish: kaprys — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Portuguese: capricho — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Romanian: capriciu — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Russian: капри́з (kapríz) — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Serbo-Croatian: хи̑р — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Serbo-Croatian: hȋr — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Spanish: capricho — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Swedish: nyck — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Swedish: infall — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Swedish: påhitt — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Swedish: ryck — impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action
• Bulgarian: изменчивост (izmenčivost) — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Bulgarian: непостоянност (nepostojannost) — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Catalan: capritx — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Catalan: caprici — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Finnish: oikku — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Polish: kaprys — unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes
• Bulgarian: импулсивност (impulsivnost) — disposition to be impulsive
• Finnish: oikullisuus — disposition to be impulsive
• Finnish: oikuttelu — disposition to be impulsive
• Romanian: impulsivitate — disposition to be impulsive
• Russian: своенравие (svojenravije) — disposition to be impulsive
• Bulgarian: прищявка (prištjavka) — impulsive change of mind
• Chinese Cantonese: 隨想 /随想 (ceoi4 soeng2) — impulsive change of mind
• Chinese Mandarin: 隨想 /随想 (suíxiǎng) — impulsive change of mind
• Czech: kapric — impulsive change of mind
• Finnish: oikku — impulsive change of mind