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Definition: Caprine |
CaprineAdjective1. Being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats; "caprine creatures"; "a caprine strain of virus"; "a caprine voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Caprine \Cap"rine\, adjective. [Latin expression caprinus.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CAE | English | Caprine arthroencephalopathy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Caprine |
| English words defined with "caprine": caprine animal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caprine": Arthritis-Encephalitis Virus, Caprine ♦ brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding ♦ caprine and ovine brucellosis, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia ♦ officially brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding, ovine or caprine animals for breeding, ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening, ovine or caprine animals for production, ovine or caprine animals for slaughter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Caprine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Caprine). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Caprine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Caprine" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "caprine": caprine and ovine brucellosis ♦ caprine animal ♦ contagious caprine pleuropneumonia ♦ ovine or caprine animals for breeding ♦ ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening ♦ ovine or caprine animals for production ♦ ovine or caprine animals for slaughter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caprine | 25 |
caprine supply | 19 |
caprine deity | 16 |
arthritis caprine encephalitis | 7 |
caprine diety | 4 |
caprine news united | 2 |
caprine estate | 2 |
caprine goat supply | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caprine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | I Cjapit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ماعزي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кози. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slagtefår eller-geder (ovine or caprine animals for slaughter), produktionsfår eller-geder (ovine or caprine animals for production), ledbetændelse hos geder (caprine arthritis), fåre-eller gedebedrift,der officielt er fri for brucellose (officially brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), fåre-eller gedebedrift,der er fri for brucellose (brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), får eller geder til avl,opdræt og opfedning (ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening), avls-og malkefår eller-geder (ovine or caprine animals for breeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Slachtschapen en-geiten (ovine or caprine animals for slaughter), officieel brucellosevrije schapenhouderij of geitenhouderij (officially brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), gewrichtsontsteking bij geiten (caprine arthritis), gebruiksschapen en-geiten (ovine or caprine animals for production), fokschapen en-geiten (ovine or caprine animals for breeding), fok-en mestschapen en fok-en mestgeiten (ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening), brucellosevrije schapenhouderij of geitenhouderij (brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nuori urosvuohi (young caprine, young he-goat), nuori pukki (young caprine, young he-goat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Caprine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zucht-und Mastschafe und-ziegen (ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening), Zuchtschafe und-ziegen (ovine or caprine animals for breeding), Schlachtschafe und-ziegen (ovine or caprine animals for slaughter), Nutzschafe und-ziegen (ovine or caprine animals for production), brucellosefreie Schaf-und Ziegenhaltung (brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), Arthritis bei Ziegen (caprine arthritis), amtlich anerkannte brucellosefreie Schaf-oder Ziegenhaltung (officially brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βετούλι (young caprine, young he-goat), εκμετάλλευση αιγοπροβάτων επίσημα απαλλαγμένη από βρουκέλλωση (officially brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), εκμετάλλευση αιγοπροβάτων απαλλαγμένη από βρουκέλλωση (brucellosis-free ovine or caprine holding), αιγοπρόβατα σφαγής (ovine or caprine animals for slaughter), αιγοπρόβατα παραγωγής (ovine or caprine animals for production), αιγοπρόβατα εκτροφής (ovine or caprine animals for breeding), αιγοπρόβατα αναπαραγωγής,εκτροφής και πάχυνσης (ovine or caprine animals for breeding and fattening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Kecskeféle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Caprino (goatish, hircine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goayragh (goatish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aprinecay Caprino (goatish). (various references) Caprin. (various references) Козлиный. (various references) Del Cabrón. (various references) Bock- (bow). (various references) Козлиний, Цапиний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "caprine" (pronounced 'Cap"rine'): Antipyrine, Chelerythrine, Chlorine, Dasyurine, Euchlorine, Ferine, Igasurine, Kairine, Lampyrine, Larine, Myrmotherine, Neurine, Nodosarine, Vitrine, viverrine, Xenurine, Zooerythrine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: apneic, carnie, panier, pincer, prance, prince, rapine. | |
-2 letters: areic, arpen, cairn, caner, caper, carpi, ceria, crane, crape, cripe, erica, nacre, naric, nicer, pacer, panic, pecan, price, rance, recap, repin, ripen. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, airn, aper, cain, cane, cape, care, carn, carp, cine, cire, crap, earn, epic, nape, narc, neap, near, nice, nipa, pace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: apocrine, capering, caponier, procaine. | |
+2 letters: caponiers, carpeting, crepitant, epicurean, escarping, panegyric, panickier, parceling, paunchier, pecuniary, percaline, porcelain, preaching, preacting, precisian, prefacing, procaines, proscenia, recapping, repacking, replacing, respacing. | |
+3 letters: apprentice, calipering, campaigner, carpetings, chaptering, complainer, discrepant, epicentral, epicureans, hypermanic, importance, interspace, pancreatic, pancreatin, panegyrics, parcelling, percalines, pericrania, picarooned, porcelains, pratincole, precasting, precaution, precisians, prefinance, prepacking, preplacing, rampancies, reclasping, repatching, republican, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering, scorpaenid, syncarpies, upreaching. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 72 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. .-. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p r i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0072 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678284758071 |
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