caporal

From French caporal.

caporal (uncountable)

1. A type of shag tobacco.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 44, in Of Human Bondage:

     [T]he seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.

   • 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 7:

     She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.

From Spanish caporal.

caporal (plural caporals)

1. (Latin America) A foreman or overseer.

• crapola

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.puˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.poˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.poˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al

caporal m (plural caporals)

1. (military) corporal

• “caporal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “caporal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “caporal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “caporal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Italian caporale.

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔ.ʁal/

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caporal m (plural caporaux, feminine caporale)

1. (military) corporal
2. caporal (tobacco)

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

caporal m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of caporale

Borrowed from French caporal, from Italian caporale, from capo (“chief”).^[1]

• Hyphenation: ca‧po‧ral

caporal m (plural caporais)

1. (Portugal, military) former military rank, between corporal and sergeant

caporal m or f (plural caporais)

1. designating a quality of chopped tobacco

Borrowed from French caporal.

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caporal m (plural caporali)

1. corporal

Borrowed from Italian caporale.

• IPA^(key): /kapoˈɾal/ [ka.poˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ca‧po‧ral

caporal m (plural caporales)

1. corporal
2. foreman

• “caporal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024