capta

See also: captá and čapta

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈkap.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkap.ta]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from captar.

Noun

capta f (plural captes)

1. (charity) collection
   • 1932, Jaume Raventós i Domènech, Memòries d'un cabaler:

     Les noies més eixerides del poble feien dues captes anyals per les obres de l'església i del col·legi.

     The most lively girls in the town made two annual collections for repairs to the church and to the school.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capta

1. inflection of captar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “capta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “capta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “capta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “capta”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.ta/

Verb

capta

1. third-person singular past historic of capter

Galician

Verb

capta

1. inflection of captar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

capta

1. inflection of captare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Participle

capta

1. inflection of captus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

captā

1. ablative feminine singular of captus

Verb

captā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of captō

References

• “capta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "capta", 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)
• “capta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capta”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Verb

capta

1. inflection of captar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French capter, from Latin captāre.

Verb

a capta (third-person singular present captează, past participle captat) 1st conjugation

1. to capture

Conjugation

    conjugation of capta (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a capta
gerund			captând
past participle			captat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	captez	captezi	captează	captăm	captați	captează
	imperfect	captam	captai	capta	captam	captați	captau
	simple perfect	captai	captași	captă	captarăm	captarăți	captară
	pluperfect	captasem	captaseși	captase	captaserăm	captaserăți	captaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să captez	să captezi	să capteze	să captăm	să captați	să capteze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		captează			captați
	negative		nu capta			nu captați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabta/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -abta
• Syllabification: cap‧ta

Verb

capta

1. inflection of captar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative