Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To castrate; to make a capon of.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).
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