captor
English
Alternative forms
- captour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Noun
captor (plural captors)
- One who is holding a captive or captives.
- One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
Synonyms
- (one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper
- (one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber
Translations
one who is holding a captive
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one who has captured something or someone
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See also
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) captor
Etymology
From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”).
Noun
captor m (genitive captōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | captor | captōrēs |
Genitive | captōris | captōrum |
Dative | captōrī | captōribus |
Accusative | captōrem | captōrēs |
Ablative | captōre | captōribus |
Vocative | captor | captōrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “captor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- captor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)
- captor
- 2015 July 17, “Dos detenidos por secuestrar a una joven por una deuda de drogas”, in El País[1]:
- Los agentes pudieron rescatar a la mujer un día y medio más tarde, cuando sus captores la trasladaban en un vehículo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “captor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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