Pronounced: WIH-thee, noun
Notes: Another word I’ve never run across
Yesterday’s word
The capriole means
- a playful leap; caper
- a leap made by a trained horse involving a backward kick of the hind legs at the top of the leap
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word came either from the Middle French word capriole (caper) or the Italian word capriola (leap). They came from the Latin word capreolus (goat), which is a diminutive of caper (goat).
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