different between captor vs cantor

English

Alternative forms

• captour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capi?. English usage began around 1688.

Noun

captor (plural captors)

1. One who is holding a captive or captives.
2. 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

See also

• captee
• captive
• captivity

Anagrams

• cartop, proact

Latin

Verb

captor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of capt?

Etymology

From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”).

Noun

captor m (genitive capt?ris); third declension

1. who catches or captures
2. a captor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)

1. captor

English

Alternative forms

• cantour (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kænt??(?)/, /?kænt?(?)/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cantor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cantus, from verb canere (“to sing”) + agent suffix -or. Doublet of chanter.

Noun

cantor (plural cantors)

1. singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony

2. A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan

Related terms

• cantorate
• cantrix
• chant

Translations

See also

• song leader

Anagrams

• Carnot, Carton, Catron, Contra, TRACON, carton, contra, contra-, corant, craton, tracon

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cantor (“male singer”), cant?rem.

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores)

1. singer (person who sings)

Synonyms

• cantante

Related terms

• cantar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cantor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?n?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kan?to?/

Noun

cantor m (plural cantors, feminine cantora)

1. singer (person who sings)

Related terms

• cantar

Further reading

• “cantor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cantor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cantor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cantor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.tor/, [?kän?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.tor/, [?k?n?t??r]

Etymology 1

From can? (“I sing”) +? -tor.

Noun

cantor m (genitive cant?ris, feminine cantr?x); third declension

1. singer (male)
2. player (male)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

• cantr?x

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cant? (“I sing”).

Verb

cantor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of cant?

References

• cantor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cantor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cant?rem (“male singer”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k???to?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /k???to?/

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singer (person who sings)

Derived terms

• cantorzinho (diminutive)
• cantautor

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cantor

Noun

cantor m (plural cantori)

1. cantor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cantor, cant?rem.

Adjective

cantor (feminine cantora, masculine plural cantores, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singing

Derived terms

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singer

Related terms

• cantar
• canto

Further reading

• “cantor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cantor, cant?rem.

Noun

cantor m (plural cantori) or cantor m (plural canturi)

1. singer, chorister

Welsh

Etymology

Latin cantor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kant?r/

Noun

cantor f (plural cantorion or cantoriaid, feminine cantores)

1. singer

   Synonym: canwr

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cantor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Swedish mjölkkantor (“milk cabinet”), obsolete form of mjölkkontor, from obsolete kantor corresponding to modern kontor (“office; building or room”), from Middle Low German kantôr, kontôr, komtôr, komptor (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch cantoor, contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (“instrument sufffix”) calquing earlier Medieval Latin comput?rium.

Noun

c?nt?r n (definite singular c?nt?rä?, definite plural c?nt?r?)

1. Alternative spelling of kanntor