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Cape vs Cepe - What's the difference?

cape | cepe |

As nouns the difference between cape and cepe

is that cape is a piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland while cepe is a cep (type of mushroom).

As a verb cape

is to head or point; to keep a course.

As a proper noun Cape

is the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Province, South Africa.

cape

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) cap, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
    • Synonyms
    * chersonese * peninsula * point

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia cape) (etyl) capa, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
    See also
    * cloak

    Verb

    (cap)
  • (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
    • The ship capes southwest by south.
  • (obsolete) To gape.
    • (Chaucer)
  • To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    cepe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cep (type of mushroom).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 7, author=, title=On the Mild Side, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The current menu includes sugar cane and coffee marinated pork chop with cepes and white sweet potato purée; and fingerling-potato-crusted striped bass with broccoli purée and maple red wine sauce. }}