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ca⋅price
[kuh-prees] 
–noun
| 1. | a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather. |
| 2. | a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty. |
| 3. | Music. capriccio (def. 1). |
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| ca·price (kə-prēs') n.
[French, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio, fright, sudden start : capo, head (from Latin caput; see kaput- in Indo-European roots) + riccio, curly (from Latin ēricius, hedgehog, from ēr).] |
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Caprice
Ca*price"\, n. [F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i.]1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. "Caprices of appetite." --W. Irving. 2. (Mus.) See Capriccio. Syn: Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness.
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Language Translation for : CAPRICE
Spanish:
capricho, antojo,
German:
die Laune,
Japanese:
気まぐれ
caprice
1667, from Fr. caprice "whim," from It. capriccio "whim," orig. "a shivering," probably from capro "goat," with reference to frisking; but another theory connects the It. word with capo "head" + riccio "curl, frizzled," lit. "hedgehog," from L. ericius. The notion is of the hair standing on end in horror. Capricious is first attested 1594.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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