caprice









caprice


noun

  1. a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one’s mind or the weather.
  2. a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty.
  3. Music. capriccio(def 1).

noun

  1. a sudden or unpredictable change of attitude, behaviour, etc; whim
  2. a tendency to such changes
  3. another word for capriccio
n.

“sudden change of mind,” 1660s, from French caprice “whim” (16c.), from Italian capriccio “whim,” originally “a shivering,” possibly from capro “goat,” with reference to frisking, from Latin capreolus “wild goat” (see cab). But another theory connects the Italian word with capo “head” + riccio “curl, frizzled,” literally “hedgehog” (from Latin ericius). The notion in this case would be of the hair standing on end in horror, hence the person shivering in fear.

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