captiu

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin captīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kəpˈtiw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kapˈtiw]

Adjective

captiu (feminine captiva, masculine plural captius, feminine plural captives)

1. captive

Noun

captiu m (plural captius, feminine captiva, feminine plural captives)

1. captive

Related terms

• captar
• captivar
• captiveri
• captivitat

Further reading

• “captiu”, 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
• “captiu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “captiu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “captiu”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)