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Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpəʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‎^[1], London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86:

     […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
     The little shepherd in his white capote
     Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   • 1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor‎^[2], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359:

     It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

     The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality.[…], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,[…], →OCLC, page 123:

     A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale‎^[3], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308:

     Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

• (coat): cappo

• capoted

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote. Piecewise doublet of capot. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔt/

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capote f (plural capotes)

1. greatcoat
2. (of a car) soft top
3. (slang) ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”)
   • 1994, “Zig Zag de l'aisé”, in Obsolète, performed by MC Solaar:

     Le pape demande de choisir hostie ou capote / Oh Shit ! Moins de fidèles et plus de sex shops

     The Pope asks (them) to choose between the Eucharist and the condom / Oh Shit ! Less faithfuls and more sex shops

• capoter
• décapoter

• → English: capote
• → Persian: کاپوت (kâput)
• → Polish: kapota
• → Portuguese: capote
• → Russian: капо́т (kapót), капо́тъ (kapót) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Armenian: կապոտ (kapot)
  • → Georgian: კაპოტი (ḳaṗoṭi)
  • → Ukrainian: капо́т (kapót)
  • → Uzbek: kapot
• → Turkish: kaput

capote

1. inflection of capoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capot

• “capote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• écopât

Unadapted borrowing from French capote.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Hyphenation: ca‧pote

capote f (invariable)

1. bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
2. soft top

• Capeto

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɔtɨ
• Hyphenation: ca‧po‧te

From French capot (“bonnet”), first attested in the 17th century.^[1]

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
   • 1973, Fernando Tordo, “Tourada”:

     Entram guizos, chocas e capotes / E mantilhas pretas

     Enter rattles, cowbells, and cloaks / And black mantillas

3. (card games) clean sweep
4. (figurative) disguise
5. (Brazil, colloquial) condom
6. (dialectal) helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

   Synonym: galinha-d'angola

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

capote

1. inflection of capotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “capote”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “capote”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpote/ [kaˈpo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ca‧po‧te

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters

capote

1. inflection of capotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “capote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from French capote.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔːt/

capote

1. greatcoat

   Synonym: weeneen-kaase

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29

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