"captor" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkæptɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-captor.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-captor.wav [US] Forms: captors [plural]
Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{bor|en|LL.|captor}} Late Latin captor, {{der|en|la|capiō}} Latin capiō Head templates: {{en-noun}} captor (plural captors)
  1. One who is holding a captive or captives. Categories (topical): People Synonyms (one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper Translations (one who is holding a captive): věznitel [masculine] (Czech), Entführer [masculine] (German), kaihopu (Maori), captor [masculine] (Portuguese), secuestrador [masculine] (Spanish), tillfångatagare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-captor-en-noun-hTTXLYzI Disambiguation of People: 69 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'one holding a captive': 86 14 Disambiguation of 'one who is holding a captive': 77 23
  2. One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone. Synonyms (one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber Translations (one who has captured something or someone): Fänger [masculine] (German), fenġa [masculine] (Old English), captor [masculine] (Portuguese), captor [masculine] (Spanish), tillfångatagare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-captor-en-noun-TWelBWGJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'one who catches someone or something': 38 62 Disambiguation of 'one who has captured something or someone': 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: captour [obsolete, rare] Related terms: captee, captive, captivity

Noun [Latin]

Etymology: From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*sterh₃-}}, {{m|la|capio||I take, capture, seize}} capio (“I take, capture, seize”) Head templates: {{la-noun|captor<3>|g=m}} captor m (genitive captōris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|captor<3>}} Forms: captōris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], captor [nominative, singular], captōrēs [nominative, plural], captōris [genitive, singular], captōrum [genitive, plural], captōrī [dative, singular], captōribus [dative, plural], captōrem [accusative, singular], captōrēs [accusative, plural], captōre [ablative, singular], captōribus [ablative, plural], captor [singular, vocative], captōrēs [plural, vocative]
  1. who catches or captures Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-captor-la-noun-FqTQyOhq
  2. a captor Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-captor-la-noun-19GPyBZ6
  3. a hunter, huntsman Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-captor-la-noun-TRug58nG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: captorius, captura, captus

Verb [Latin]

Etymology: From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*sterh₃-}}, {{m|la|capio||I take, capture, seize}} capio (“I take, capture, seize”) Head templates: {{head|la|verb form}} captor
  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of captō Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, passive, present, singular Form of: captō
    Sense id: en-captor-la-verb-cqGTxcv1 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 14 3 8 75 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 22 22 24 32

Noun [Portuguese]

IPA: /kapˈtoʁ/ [Brazil], [kapˈtoh] [Brazil], /ka.piˈtoʁ/ [Brazil], [ka.piˈtoh] [Brazil], /kapˈtoʁ/ [Brazil], [kapˈtoh] [Brazil], /ka.piˈtoʁ/ [Brazil], [ka.piˈtoh] [Brazil], /kapˈtoɾ/ [São-Paulo], /ka.piˈtoɾ/ [São-Paulo], /kapˈtoʁ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [kapˈtoχ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /ka.piˈtoʁ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [ka.piˈtoχ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /kapˈtoɻ/ [Southern-Brazil], /kaˈptoɾ/ [Portugal], /kaˈptoɾ/ [Portugal], /kaˈpto.ɾi/ [Portugal, Southern] Forms: captores [plural], captora [feminine], captoras [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ Etymology: From Latin captor. Etymology templates: {{der|pt|la|captor}} Latin captor Head templates: {{pt-noun|m|f=+}} captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)
  1. captor Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-captor-pt-noun-5ufJnrp4 Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /kabˈtoɾ/, [kaβ̞ˈt̪oɾ] Forms: captores [plural], captora [feminine], captoras [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: -oɾ Etymology: From Latin captor. Etymology templates: {{der|es|la|captor}} Latin captor Head templates: {{es-noun|m|f=+}} captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)
  1. captor Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-captor-es-noun-5ufJnrp4 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "english": "[original: I prefer not to swap pleasantries with my captors.]",
          "ref": "2018 November 13, “A espada” (18:58 from the start), in She-Ra e as Princesas do Poder, season 1, episode 1 (streaming), spoken by Adora (Lina Mendes), Rio de Janeiro: Gramophone, dubbing of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Sword, via Netflix",
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          "ref": "2018 November 13, “A espada” (18:58 from the start), in She-Ra e as Princesas do Poder, season 1, episode 1 (streaming), spoken by Adora (Lina Mendes), Rio de Janeiro: Gramophone, dubbing of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Sword, via Netflix",
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      "form": "captores",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "captora",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "captoras",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "f": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cap‧tor"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Rhymes:Spanish/oɾ",
        "Rhymes:Spanish/oɾ/2 syllables",
        "Spanish 2-syllable words",
        "Spanish countable nouns",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Spanish nouns",
        "Spanish terms derived from Latin",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The police officers were able to rescue the woman a day and a half later, when her captors were transporting her in a vehicle.",
          "ref": "2015 July 17, “Dos detenidos por secuestrar a una joven por una deuda de drogas”, in El País",
          "text": "Los agentes pudieron rescatar a la mujer un día y medio más tarde, cuando sus captores la trasladaban en un vehículo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "captor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "captor",
          "captor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kabˈtoɾ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oɾ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "captor"
}

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