cappare

Catalan

Etymology

From cap (“head”) +‎ pare (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəpˈpa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kapˈpa.ɾe]

Noun

cappare m (plural cappares)

1. (botany) a plant's main shoot or tendril

Further reading

• “cappare”, 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
• “cappare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cappare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cappare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kapˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: cap‧pà‧re

Etymology 1

Perhaps an alteration of capare with the -pp- segment taken from chiappare.

Verb

	This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
	The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

cappàre (first-person singular present càppo, first-person singular past historic cappài, past participle cappàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic, regional)

1. to pick, to choose

   Synonym: scegliere

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cappàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	cappàre
auxiliary verb		avére	gerund		cappàndo
present participle		cappànte	past participle		cappàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	càppo	càppi	càppa	cappiàmo	cappàte	càppano
imperfect	cappàvo	cappàvi	cappàva	cappavàmo	cappavàte	cappàvano
past historic	cappài	cappàsti	cappò	cappàmmo	cappàste	cappàrono
future	capperò	capperài	capperà	capperémo	capperéte	capperànno
conditional	capperèi	capperésti	capperèbbe, capperébbe	capperémmo	capperéste	capperèbbero, capperébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	càppi	càppi	càppi	cappiàmo	cappiàte	càppino
imperfect	cappàssi	cappàssi	cappàsse	cappàssimo	cappàste	cappàssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		càppa	càppi	cappiàmo	cappàte	càppino
negative imperative		non cappàre	non càppi	non cappiàmo	non cappàte	non càppino

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cap (“lie”)

Verb

	This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
	The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

cappàre (first-person singular present càppo, first-person singular past historic cappài, past participle cappàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (slang) to lie

Further reading

• cappare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana