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.

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

(See also cattō.)

  • Balkano-Romance: ("search, seek"; possibly via *cabtō)
    • Aromanian: caftu
    • Romanian: căuta, căta
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: cattare (catch) (regional or archaic)
    • Venetan: catar (find)
      • ? Dalmatian: catur (find)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: catà (catch)
  • Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “catar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (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[1], 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