capen

See also: Capen, capën, and capèn

Catalan

Verb

capen

  1. third-person plural present indicative of capar

Galician

Verb

capen

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Middle English

Noun

capen

  1. alternative form of capoun

Verb

capen

  1. To look for, search after.
    • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], (please specify |book=I to V), [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
      Longe may þey seche Er þat þei fynde þat þei after cape.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. To gaze or stare.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

capen m

  1. definite singular of cape

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

capen m

  1. definite singular of cape

Spanish

Verb

capen

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Noun

capen

  1. definite singular of cape
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