The meaning "cap-shaped piece of copper lined with gunpowder and used to ignite a firearm" is by 1825, hence cap-gun (1855) extended to paper strips used in toy pistols by 1872 ( cap-pistol is from 1879).įigurative thinking cap is from 1839 ( considering cap is 1650s). The meaning "contraceptive device" is by 1916. extended to cap-like coverings on the ends of anything (as in hubcap) from mid-15c. The meaning "soft, small, close-fitted head covering" in English is from early 13c., originally for women extended to men late 14c. In most Romance languages, a diminutive of Late Latin cappa has become the usual word for "head-covering" (such as French chapeau). Old English took in two forms of the Late Latin word, one meaning "head-covering," the other "ecclesiastical dress" (see cape (n.1)). The Late Latin word apparently originally meant "a woman's head-covering," but the sense was transferred to "hood of a cloak," then to "cloak" itself, though the various senses co-existed. Possibly a shortened from capitulare "headdress," from Latin caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). Late Old English cæppe "hood, head-covering, cape," a general Germanic borrowing (compare Old Frisian and Middle Dutch kappe, Old High German chappa) from Late Latin cappa "a cape, hooded cloak" (source of Spanish capa, Old North French cape, French chape), a word of uncertain origin.
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