urbicapus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Plautus, from urbs (“city”) +‎ capiō (“to capture”) +‎ -us.

Noun

urbicapus m (genitive urbicapī); second declension

  1. (hapax legomenon) a city capturer
    • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1052-1055:
      Mil. Te compellare et complecti et contrectare. Nam nisi tu illi fers suppetias, iam illa animum despondebit. Age, mi Achilles, fiat quod te oro, serva illam pulchram pulchre, exprome benignum ex te ingenium, urbicape, occisor regum.
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Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative urbicapus urbicapī
genitive urbicapī urbicapōrum
dative urbicapō urbicapīs
accusative urbicapum urbicapōs
ablative urbicapō urbicapīs
vocative urbicape urbicapī

References

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