captor

English

Alternative forms

• captour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowing 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

See also

• captee
• captive
• captivity

Translations

one who is holding a captive

• Portuguese: captor m

one who has captured something or someone

• Portuguese: captor m

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “captor”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “captor” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Spanish

Noun

captor m (plural captors)

1. captor