capriccio
/kəˈpɹiːt͡ʃoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fantastical thing or work.
noun
A type of Renaissance landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual and often fictional setting.
Example Sentences
- "She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me—actually."
- "Will this Capricio hold in thee, art ſure?"
- "If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs."
- "“Poor fellow!” thought Vivian, “I fear, with all thy wit and pleasantry, thou art, after all, but one of those capriccios which Nature sometimes indulges in, merely to show how superior is her accustomed order to eccentricities, even accompanied with rare powers.”"
- "Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame […]"
- "Capricci, far from being decorative images without meaning, probably express the sensation that the world, even though built by man with pretensions of eternity, is instead subjugated to the dominance of time […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Old Italian capo Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗrder. Latin ērīcius Old Italian riccio Old Italian caporiccio Italian capricciobor. English capriccio Borrowed from Italian capriccio. Doublet of caprice.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: capriccio