English
capped
From cap + -ed.
Formed from cap + -ed
Latin caput ‘head’
Late Latin cappa ‘cap, hood, cape’
Proto-West Germanic *kappā ‘covering, hood, mantle’
Old English cæppe ‘cap, hood’
Middle English cappe ‘cap’
English cap
The story
Piecewise doublet of caped, chaped, and coped.
Today it means
adj Having a cap (various senses).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / capped