capot

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpɒt/, /kəˈpəʊ/

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.

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 ?”

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

• coapt

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

capot m (plural capots)

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

• capota
• capotell
• encapotar

• “capot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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

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

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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capot m (plural capots)

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

• capote
• en avoir sous le capot

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