[kuh-prees] 
| 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). |
| 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).] |
