capot

See also: Capot

English

Etymology

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpɒt/, /kəˈpəʊ/

Noun

capot (plural capots)

1. (card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
   • 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet:

     There are three chances in this game, viz., the repique, pique, and capot […] The Capot is , when either of the Players make every Trick , for which he is to count forty ; instead of which he counts but ten , when he only gets the Majority of the Tricks, which is called , the Cards

   • 1902 November, Walter Del Mar, “London to Colombo”, in Around the World through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 3–4:

     A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points.

Verb

capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting or capoting, simple past and past participle capotted or capoted)

1. (ambitransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     “Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?”

References

“capot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• coapt

Catalan

Etymology

From Portuguese capote, from French capot. Doublet of capó.

Noun

capot m (plural capots)

1. overcoat, cloak
2. (military) greatcoat
3. (card games) capot

Derived terms

• capota
• capotell
• encapotar

Further reading

• “capot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French capote (“hooded cloak”), diminutive of cape, from Late Latin cappa. Piecewise doublet of capote. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/, (older, now chiefly Belgium) /ka.pɔ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

capot m (plural capots)

1. (cover over the engine of a motor car) bonnet (UK), hood (US)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: capó
• → Gulf Arabic: كبوت (kabbūt)
• → Hijazi Arabic: كَبُّوت (kabbūt)
• → Portuguese: capô
• → Spanish: capó
• → Luxembourgish: Capot

See also

• capote
• en avoir sous le capot

Further reading

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