capô

Portuguese

noun

Definitions

bonnet cover over the engine of a motor car

Etymology

Borrowed from French capot (be without a trick in the card game Piquet, destroyed, defeated).

Origin

French

capot

Gloss

be without a trick in the card game Piquet, destroyed, defeated

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

kaputt German
kapot Dutch, Flemish
capot French
capote Spanish, Castilian
capó Spanish, Castilian
capote Old French
كبوت Gulf Arabic