captivator

captivator

English

Noun

captivator (plural captivators)

1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
   • 1858 Mary Cowden Clarke - World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages

     Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.

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Latin

Etymology

From captīvō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kap.tiːˈwaː.tor/, [kap.tiːˈwaː.tɔr]

Noun

captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension

1. he that take captive
   • 354 AD — 430 AD, Augustine of Hippo, Epistulae, 199

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	captīvātor	captīvātōrēs
Genitive	captīvātōris	captīvātōrum
Dative	captīvātōrī	captīvātōribus
Accusative	captīvātōrem	captīvātōrēs
Ablative	captīvātōre	captīvātōribus
Vocative	captīvātor	captīvātōrēs

Verb

captīvātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō

References

• captivator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• captivator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette