chapon
French
noun
Definitions
- capon; a castrated cockerel or the meat thereof
- (by extension) any castrated male fowl
- a large crouton served in a lean soup
- garlic bread
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French chappon inherited from Old French chapon inherited from Latin *cappō, *cappo, cappōnem, cāpō.
Origin
Latin
cāpō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capon English
- caponet English
- caponization English
- caponize English
- kapuuni Finnish
- *cappāre Latin
- *cappō Latin
- *cappō, *cappo, cappōnem Latin
- cāpō Latin
- Kapaun German
- capponare Italian
- cappone Italian
- chaponner French
- capón Spanish, Castilian
- *kop- Proto-Indo-European
- capoeira Portuguese
- capão Portuguese
- kapłon Polish
- capoun Middle English
- chapon Old French
- capoen Middle Dutch
- chapon Norman
- kappūn Middle High German
- chappon Middle French
- capon Old Portuguese
- cjapon Friulian
- capón Venetian
- capuú Copala Triqui