captiosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

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Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Archaic Latin kapiō

Latin capiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin captiō

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ō̆tsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Latin captiōsus

From captiō + -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kap.tiˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kap.t͡siˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

captiōsus (feminine captiōsa, neuter captiōsum, comparative captiōsior); first/second-declension adjective

1. fallacious, deceptive
2. captious
3. harmful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	captiōsus	captiōsa	captiōsum		captiōsī	captiōsae	captiōsa
genitive	captiōsī	captiōsae	captiōsī		captiōsōrum	captiōsārum	captiōsōrum
dative	captiōsō	captiōsae	captiōsō		captiōsīs
accusative	captiōsum	captiōsam	captiōsum		captiōsōs	captiōsās	captiōsa
ablative	captiōsō	captiōsā	captiōsō		captiōsīs
vocative	captiōse	captiōsa	captiōsum		captiōsī	captiōsae	captiōsa

Descendants

• → Catalan: capciós
• → English: captious
• → French: captieux
• → Italian: capzioso, cazzioso
• → Portuguese: capcioso

References

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