chapon

Inherited from Middle French chappon, from Old French chapon, chiapun, from Vulgar Latin *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Catalan capó, English capon, Italian cappone, Occitan capon, Portuguese capão, Spanish capón.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.pɔ̃/

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• Homophone: Chapon

chapon m (plural chapons, feminine chaponne)

1. capon; a castrated cockerel or the meat thereof
2. (by extension) any castrated male fowl
3. a large crouton served in a lean soup
4. garlic bread
5. Red scorpionfish (Scorpaena scrofa)

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

chapon

1. alternative form of capoun

Borrowed from French chapon.

chapon m (plural chapons)

1. (Jersey) capon