capias
English
WOTD – 20 April 2012
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkapɪəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪ.pi.əs/, /ˈkæ.pi.əs/
Noun
capias (plural capiases)
- (law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
Usage notes
- The term is mostly used in the singular.
Translations
arrest warrant — see arrest warrant
Latin
Verb
capiās
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of capiō