captor
English
Alternative forms
- captour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæptɚ/
Audio (southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Noun
captor (plural captors)
- One who is holding a captive or captives.
- 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
Translations
one who is holding a captive
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one who has captured something or someone
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See also
- captee
- captive
- captivity
Anagrams
- cartop, proact
Latin
Etymology
From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”).
Verb
captor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of captō
Noun
captor m (genitive captōris); third declension
- who catches or captures
- a captor
- a hunter, huntsman
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | captor | captōrēs |
Genitive | captōris | captōrum |
Dative | captōrī | captōribus |
Accusative | captōrem | captōrēs |
Ablative | captōre | captōribus |
Vocative | captor | captōrēs |
Related terms
- captorius
- captura
- captus
Descendants
- Portuguese: captor
- Spanish: captor
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin captor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kabˈtoɾ/ [kaβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: cap‧tor
Noun
captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)
- captor
- 2015 July 17, “Dos detenidos por secuestrar a una joven por una deuda de drogas”, in El País:
- Los agentes pudieron rescatar a la mujer un día y medio más tarde, cuando sus captores la trasladaban en un vehículo.
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Further reading
- “captor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014