different between captor vs captodative

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

Adjective

captodative (comparative more captodative, superlative most captodative)

1. (chemistry) Affected by both a captor (electron-withdrawing) and a dative (electron-releasing) substituent