escapade

First of all, in equestrian sport, escapade refers to a false jump of a dressage horse , meaning a jump to the side or "secret flight , escape". Likewise, with the term educational language transferred to humans, an “adventurous-idiosyncratic undertaking, idiosyncratic action” such as in particular a “wanton prank ”, an adventure or an affair . The word caper , which can be traced back to a jump or jump in the air and, in addition to the (positive) meaning in equestrian sport, for “capricious, great idea; high-spirited prank ”and originally stood for an artistic leap by Italian dancers ( capriola  = leapfrog, to: capro from Latin caper  = buck).

etymology

Escapade for 'willful prank, fling, false jump of a dressage horse' was borrowed into German in the 18th century from the synonymous French escapade , which in turn comes from the Italian scappata or Spanish escapada 'escaping, secret flight, careless action'. Both forms are derived from the vulgar Latin verb * excappāre for 'to take off the religious dress, to change saddles, to renounce a habit', which was formed from the late Latin cappa 'head covering', Middle Latin 'monk's robe '.

The Brockhaus' Small conversational lexicon defined 1911 escapade as:

"[...] an affair of a school horse; wanton prank. "

- Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911., p. 534.

The word Kapriole comes from the Italian capriola "Bocksprung" and was borrowed into the German language via the French kabriole in the 17th century . It initially called Italian dancer artistic jumps, but compares it etymologically considered with the gambols of cloven-hoofed animals : The Italian word Capriolo means " deer buck" and has been from the Latin capreolus " Wild Goat developed". Most often the word is used today in the phrase capers , which means something like “make nonsense”, but now also means “crazy ideas, unforeseen phrases” (such as “weather capers”).

See also

• Escapism

Web links

Wiktionary: Escapade  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Kapriole  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eskapade in duden.de, accessed on November 6, 2014
2. ↑ Hans Schulz, Gerhard Strauss: German Foreign Dictionary / Eau de Cologne - Futurism , Institute for German Language, Walter de Gruyter 2004, p. 242, online in Google books
3. ↑ Kapriole , duden.de, accessed on November 9, 2014
4. ↑ Escapade in DWDS , accessed on November 6, 2014
5. ↑ online at zeno.org , accessed on November 9, 2014
6. ↑ Kapriolen , in Wissen.de , accessed on November 12, 2014