captor
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- captour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.
Noun[edit]
captor (plural captors)
- One who is holding a captive or captives.
- One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
Synonyms[edit]
- (one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper
- (one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber
Translations[edit]
one who is holding a captive
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one who has captured something or someone
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See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
captor
References[edit]
- 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
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)