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-label' role='heading' aria-level='3'>Noun (1)
perhaps shortened from capriole

NOTE: Note that capriole itself is first attested about the same time as caper, so that a shortening of the former word would have had to take place almost as soon as it was borrowed. The verb caper entry 2 appears at virtually the same time as the noun.

Verb
probably derivative of caper entry 1

NOTE: See note at caper entry 1.

Noun (2)
back-formation from earlier capers (taken as a plural), from Middle English caperis, from Latin capparis, from Greek kapparis
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