Caperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈkeɪpɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkeɪpə/
• 韻: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ca‧per

語源 1

Clipping of capriole.

名詞

caper (plural capers)

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. A jump while dancing.
3. A prank or practical joke.
4. (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
5. (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?

   • 2025 April 9, Lucy Knight, “Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress[.]

派生語

関連する語

• cab
• caprine

動詞

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)

1. 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.

2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.

派生語

語源 2

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

名詞

caper (plural capers)

1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.

   Synonym: caperberry

2. A plant of the genus Capparis.

   Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

派生語

Further reading

• caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 3

From Dutch kaper.

名詞

caper (plural capers)

1. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

語源 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

名詞

caper (plural capers)

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

参考

• north-caper

アナグラム

• Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈka.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkaː.per]

名詞

caper m (genitive caprī, feminine capra); second declension

1. he-goat (a male goat, a billy goat)

   Synonyms: buccus, hircus

語形変化

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

等位語

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参照

• “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