captor

English

Alternative forms

• captour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.

Noun

captor (plural captors)

1. One who is holding a captive or captives.
2. 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

• German: Entführer (de) m
• Maori: kaihopu

• Portuguese: captor m
• Spanish: secuestrador (es) m

one who has captured something or someone

• German: Fänger (de) m
• Portuguese: captor m

• Spanish: captor (es) m

See also

• captee
• captive
• captivity

Anagrams

• cartop, proact

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Latin

Verb

captor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of captō

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, 1883–1887)
• captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Spanish

Noun

captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)

1. captor