Two different words happen to be spelled cape in English, and it helps to keep them apart rather than looking for a hidden link. The everyday one is the garment: picture a single piece of cloth at the throat and hanging free down the back, with no sleeves holding your arms — the thing that lifts and flies when a superhero runs. The other cape is a piece of coastline, and it comes from a completely different Latin word (see the second family).
From the word’s history
The garment sense comes into English in the late 16th century from French cape, from Spanish capa, from Late Latin cappa 'hooded cloak' — the same root that gives cap and chapel-related words. It is not related to the headland sense.
「披風」這個意思在十六世紀晚期進入英文，來自法文 cape、西班牙文 capa，再往前是晚期拉丁文 cappa「有帽兜的斗篷」——跟 cap（帽子）同一條線。它跟「海角」那個意思沒有關係。
Etymonline, 'cape (n.1)' and 'cape (n.2)' — https://www.etymonline.com/word/cape
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原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Capename
- 1
A surname.
capenoun詞源 1/keɪp/
- 1
geographynatural-sciencesA piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
capenoun詞源 2/keɪp/
- 1
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
- 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.
- 2
slangA superhero.
- Rows and rows of booths and pavilions stretch across the floor, draped with glowing holograms and shifting signs beckoning capes to try their wares. Bystander insurance. Hypertech components. Mystical ingredients. Training DVDs ...
capeverb詞源 2/keɪp/
- 1
To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
- “I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve."
- 2
nauticaltransportTo head or point; to keep a course.
- The ship capes southwest by south.
- 3
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
- 4
slangTo defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
- A lot of African-Americans believe the answer is Clinton, mostly because "she's not Trump" and because President Barack Obama is shamelessly caping for her.
- Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.
- 5
To cover (as) with or like a cape.
- The white fur that caped his neck and shoulders stood on end.
- He shook her gently, combing his fingers through her coppery curls that caped her shoulders like filigree.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- convective available potential energy
- Cape of Good Hope
- Cape Province
- Cape Cod
- Cape Colony
- Cape Canaveral
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。