captivator

captivator (plural captivators)

1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
   • 1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages:

     Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.

From captīvō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kap.tiːˈwaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kap.t̪iˈvaː.t̪or]

captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension

1. he that take captive
   • 354 AD — 430 AD, Augustine of Hippo, Epistulae, 199

Third-declension noun.

captīvātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō

• “captivator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• captivator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.