captus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkap.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkap.tus] Hyphenation: cap‧tus === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Proto-Italic *kaptos, from Proto-Indo-European *kaptós (“seized, held”). Synchronically, perfect passive participle of capiō (“seize, take”). ==== Participle ==== captus (feminine capta, neuter captum); first/second-declension participle captured, having been captured, seized, having been seized, taken, having been taken taken on, having been taken on taken in, having been taken in, understood, having been understood afflicted, having been afflicted (nominalized) a prisoner, captive captīvus ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== Italian: catto (archaic) === Etymology 2 === From capiō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== captus m (genitive captūs); fourth declension a taking, seizing Synonyms: capiō, captiō the power to comprehend, capacity ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Related terms ===== === References === “captus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “captus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "captus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “captus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.