captivity

English

Etymology

Form of captive, from the Middle English captive, from the Latin captivus. Entered into the English lexicon around 14c.

Noun

captivity (plural captivities)

1. The state of being captive.
2. (obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
3. The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.

Translations

state of being captive

• Bulgarian: плен (bg) (plen) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 囚禁 (cmn) (qiújìn)

• Czech: zajetí (cs) n
• Finnish: vankeus (fi)
• French: captivité (fr) f
• German: Gefangenschaft (de) f
• Italian: cattività (it) f
• Japanese: 監禁 (ja) (かんきん, kankin)

• Latgalian: navaļa, vaņgeiba
• Latvian: gūsts (lv)
• Maori: whakarau (mi)
• Polish: niewola (pl) f
• Russian: плен (ru) (plen) m, неволя (ru) (nevólja) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заробљеништво (sh) n

  Roman: zarobljeništvo (sh) n

• Welsh: caethiwed (cy)

captives — see captive

period of being captive

• Czech: zajetí (cs) n
• Finnish: vankeus (fi), vankeusaika (fi)
• German: Gefangenschaft (de) f
• Russian: неволя (ru) (nevólja) f, плен (ru) (plen) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заробљеништво (sh) n

  Roman: zarobljeništvo (sh) n

See also

• captive
• captor