capon

Etymology

From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin capo, caponem (Vulgar Latin *cappo), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”).

noun

  1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

verb

  1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

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