capio

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“‘to take, seize, catch, grasp’”). Cognates include Albanian kap (“‘to grab, catch’”), Old Church Slavonic хапѭштє (xapjǫšte), Old Irish cacht and Old English habban, hebban, hefiġ (English have, heave, heavy).

Putative Nostratic relationships can be noted, on the basis of reconstruction *k[ʰ]ap[ʰ]- (“‘to take, seize; hand’”):

  • Common Afro-Asiatic *k[ʰ]ap[ʰ]- (“‘to take, seize; hand’”), whence Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“‘palm, hand’”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu), Hebrew כַּף (kaṗ), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)), Egyptian
    k p
     (kp), “‘to seize; hollow of the hand’”).
  • Common Finno-Ugric *käppä (“‘hand, claw’”) (Finnish käppä and käpälä, Estonian käpp, Erzya kepe), *kapp₃- (“‘to take, seize, grasp’”) (Finnish kaappaus, Erzya kapode- (“‘to grab quickly’”))
  • Common Altaic *kap- (“‘to grasp, seize’”), whence Mongolian quabči- (“‘to compress’”), Old Turkish qap- (“‘to grasp, seize’”) (Turkish kapmak)

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

present active capiō, present infinitive capere, perfect active cēpī, supine captum.

  1. I capture, seize, take.
  2. I take on.
  3. I take in, understand.

[edit] Inflection

    Third Conjugation IO-variation
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present capiō capis capit capimus capitis capiunt
future capiam capiēs capiet capiēmus capiētis capient
imperfect capiēbam capiēbās capiēbat capiēbāmus capiēbātis capiēbant
perfect cēpī cēpistī cēpit cēpimus cēpistis cēpērunt
pluperfect cēperam cēperās cēperat cēperāmus cēperātis cēperant
future perfect cēperō cēperis cēperit cēperimus cēperitis cēperint
passive present capior caperis capitur capimur capiminī capiuntur
future capiar capiēris capiētur capiēmur capiēminī capientur
imperfect capiēbar capiēbāris capiēbātur capiēbāmur capiēbāminī capiēbantur
perfect Use captus m., capta f., captum n. followed by the present indicative of sum.
pluperfect Use captus m., capta f., captum n. followed by the imperfect indicative of sum.
future perfect Use captus m., capta f., captum n. followed by the future indicative of sum.
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present capiam capiās capiat capiāmus capiātis capiant
imperfect caperem caperēs caperet caperēmus caperētis caperent
perfect cēperim cēperīs cēperit cēperīmus cēperītis cēperint
pluperfect cēpissem cēpissēs cēpisset cēpissēmus cēpissētis cēpissent
passive present capiar capiāris capiātur capiāmur capiāminī capiantur
imperfect caperer caperēris caperētur caperēmur caperēminī caperentur
perfect Use captus m., capta f., captum n. followed by the present subjunctive of sum.
pluperfect Use captus m., capta f., captum n. followed by the imperfect subjunctive of sum.
imperatives active passive
present (you) future (you) future (he/she) present (you) future (you) future (he/she)
singular cape capitō capitō capere capitor capitor
plural capite capitōte capiuntō capiminī — capiuntor
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives capere cēpisse captūrus esse capī captus esse captum īrī
participles capiēns (capientis) — captūrus -ra, -rum — captus -a, -um —

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[edit] Descendants

[edit] Noun

capiō (genitive capiōnis); f, third declension

  1. A taking
  2. (law) The right of property acquired by prescription.

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative capiō capiōnēs
genitive capiōnis capiōnum
dative capiōnī capiōnibus
accusative capiōnem capiōnēs
ablative capiōne capiōnibus
vocative capiō capiōnēs

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] References

  • “capio” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
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