accapito
Latin
Alternative forms
- acapitō, accaptō
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps from ac + captō (“catch, seek”) or from acceptō (“receive, accept”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [akˈkaː.pi.t̪o]
Verb
accapitō (present infinitive accapitāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems, impersonal in the passive (Medieval Latin)
- (intransitive) to obtain assent for possession of a fief, to pay homage (to)
- (transitive) to buy
Conjugation
Conjugation of accapitō (first conjugation, impersonal in the passive)
Related terms
- accapitum
Descendants
- Catalan: acaptar
- Old Spanish: acabdar
- Spanish: acaldar
References
- "accaptare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ac(c)apto in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “accaptare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 8