raptus

raptus

See also: Raptus

English

Etymology

From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaptəs/

Noun

raptus (plural raptuses)

1. (pathology) A seizure.
2. A state of rapture.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351:

     In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.

Anagrams

• prutas, stupra

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Verb

raptus

1. conditional of raptar

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/[1]
• Rhymes: -aptus
• Hyphenation: ràp‧tus

Noun

raptus m (invariable)

1. fit, raptus, brainstorm
2. rampage

References

1. raptus in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

• stupra

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪us]

Participle

raptus (feminine rapta, neuter raptum, adverb raptim); first/second-declension participle

1. snatched, having been snatched; grabbed, having been grabbed; carried off, having been carried off; kidnapped, having been kidnapped
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.28:

     et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēs

     and the hated race, and the honors [given] the kidnapped Ganymede
     (Juno hated the Trojans and was jealous of prince Ganymede: Jupiter's eagle had snatched up and carried off the youth who then became the heavenly cupbearer. See: Ganymede (mythology).)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	raptus	rapta	raptum		raptī	raptae	rapta
Genitive	raptī	raptae	raptī		raptōrum	raptārum	raptōrum
Dative	raptō		raptō		raptīs
Accusative	raptum	raptam	raptum		raptōs	raptās	rapta
Ablative	raptō	raptā	raptō		raptīs
Vocative	rapte	rapta	raptum		raptī	raptae	rapta

Noun

raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension

1. violent snatching
2. violent dragging away
3. robbery
4. thievery
5. rape
6. carrying off
7. abduction

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	raptus	raptūs
Genitive	raptūs	raptuum
Dative	raptuī	raptibus
Accusative	raptum	raptūs
Ablative	raptū	raptibus
Vocative	raptus	raptūs

Descendants

• English: rapt
• French: rapt, raptus
• Galician: rauto
• Italian: ratto
• Portuguese: rapto
• Sicilian: rattu
• Spanish: rapto, rato

See also

• raptor (“thief, robber”)

References

• “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raptus 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)
• raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aptus
• Syllabification: rap‧tus

Noun

raptus m pers

1. (dated) hothead, spitfire (short-tempered, quarrelsome person)

   Synonyms: awanturnik, kłótnik, nerwus, paliwoda, piekielnik, złośnik

Declension

Declension of raptus

	singular	plural
nominative	raptus	raptusy
genitive	raptusa	raptusów
dative	raptusowi	raptusom
accusative	raptusa	raptusów
instrumental	raptusem	raptusami
locative	raptusie	raptusach
vocative	raptusie	raptusy

Derived terms

adjective

• raptusowy

 

Related terms

adverb

• raptusowo

 

Further reading

• raptus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• raptus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French raptus, from Latin raptus.

Noun

raptus n (uncountable)

1. raptus

Declension

declension of raptus (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) raptus	raptusul
genitive/dative	(unui) raptus	raptusului
vocative	raptusule