cap

• n. 蓋；帽子
• vi. 脫帽致意
• vt. 覆蓋；勝過；給…戴帽；加蓋于
• n. (Cap)人名；(法、德、羅)卡普；(塞、捷)察普

來自詞根cap, 頭，詞源同chief, captain。此處指頭上戴的帽子。

cap

cap: [OE] Old English c?ppa came from late Latin cappa ‘hood’, source also of English cape ‘cloak’. The late Latin word may well have come from Latin caput ‘head’, its underlying meaning thus being ‘head covering’.
=> cappuccino, chapel, chaperone, képi

cap (n.)

late Old English c?ppe "hood, head-covering, cape," from Late Latin cappa "a cape, hooded cloak" (source of Spanish capa, Old North French cape, French chape), possibly a shortened from capitulare "headdress," from Latin caput "head" (see head (n.)).

Meaning "women's head covering" is early 13c. in English; extended to men late 14c. Figurative thinking cap is from 1839 (considering cap is 1650s). Of cap-like coverings on the ends of anything (such as hub-cap) from mid-15c. Meaning "contraceptive device" is first recorded 1916. That of "cap-shaped piece of copper lined with gunpowder and used to ignite a firearm" is c. 1826; extended to paper version used in toy pistols, 1872 (cap-pistol is from 1879).

The Late Latin word apparently originally meant "a woman's head-covering," but the sense was transferred to "hood of a cloak," then to "cloak" itself, though the various senses co-existed. Old English took in two forms of the Late Latin word, one meaning "head-covering," the other "ecclesiastical dress" (see cape (n.1)). In most Romance languages, a diminutive of Late Latin cappa has become the usual word for "head-covering" (such as French chapeau).

cap (v.)

c. 1400, "to put a cap on," from cap (n.). Meaning "cover as with s cap" is from c. 1600. Figurative sense of "go one better" is from 1580s. Related: Capped; capping.

1. He wears a cap to cover a spot of baldness.

他戴帽以遮斑禿。

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2. He was wearing a cream silk shirt and a tartan golfing cap.

他身著一件米色絲綢襯衫，頭戴一頂花格子高爾夫球帽。

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3. He had offered the loan of his small villa at Cap Ferrat.

他愿意借出在費拉角的小別墅。

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4. The only new cap is Llanelli's 20-year-old left-wing Wayne Proctor.

唯一初次入選國家隊的選手是來自拉內利的20歲左邊鋒韋恩·普羅克特。

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5. Her cap fell off in the street and blew away.

她的帽子掉在大街上，被風吹走了。

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