capto

See also: captó and captò

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

capto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

Galician

Verb

capto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

Italian

Verb

capto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of captare

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From capiō (“take, capture”) +‎ -tō. See captus. Compare Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō).

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    captō (present infinitive captāre, perfect active captāvī, supine captātum); first conjugation

    1. to strive to seize, catch or grasp at
      1. (by extension) to strive to see or hear[1]
    2. (figuratively) to seek, aim at
    Conjugation
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    (Note: see also cattō.)

    • Insular Romance:
      • ⇒ Sardinian: acatare, agatare (“to search, seek”)
    • Balkano-Romance: ("to search, seek"; possibly via *cabtō)
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Italian: cattare (“to catch”) (regional or archaic)
      • Venetan: catar (“to find”)
        • →? Dalmatian: catur (“find”)
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: cater (“to pick”)
      • Lombard: catà (“to catch”)
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)

    Borrowings:

    References

    1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “catar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 920

    Further reading

    • “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “capto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to try and raise a laugh: risum captare
      • to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)

    Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Participle

      captō

      1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of captus

      Portuguese

      Verb

      capto

      1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

      Spanish

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkabto/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪o]
      • Rhymes: -abto
      • Syllabification: cap‧to

      Verb

      capto

      1. first-person singular present indicative of captar