raptus

From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaptəs/

raptus (plural raptuses)

1. A state of rapture.
   • 1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 412:

     In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.

2. (pathology) A seizure.

• prutas, stupra

raptus

1. conditional of raptar

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/^[1]
• Rhymes: -aptus
• Hyphenation: ràp‧tus

raptus m (invariable)

1. fit, raptus, brainstorm
2. rampage

• stupra

Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪us]

raptus (feminine rapta, neuter raptum, adverb raptim); first/second-declension participle

1. snatched, having been snatched; grabbed, having been grabbed; carried off, having been carried off; kidnapped, having been kidnapped
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.28:

     et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēs

     and the hated race, and the honors [given] the kidnapped Ganymede
     (Juno hated the Trojans and was jealous of prince Ganymede: Jupiter's eagle had snatched up and carried off the youth who then became the heavenly cupbearer. See: Ganymede (mythology).)

First/second-declension adjective.

raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension

1. violent snatching
2. violent dragging away
3. robbery
4. thievery
5. rape
6. carrying off
7. abduction

Fourth-declension noun.

• English: rapt
• French: rapt, raptus
• Galician: rauto
• Italian: ratto
• Portuguese: rapto
• Sicilian: rattu
• Spanish: rapto, rato

• raptor (“thief, robber”)

• “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raptus 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)
• raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    

Learned borrowing from Latin raptus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/

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• Rhymes: -aptus
• Syllabification: rap‧tus

raptus m pers

1. (dated) hothead, spitfire (short-tempered, quarrelsome person)

   Synonyms: awanturnik, kłótnik, nerwus, paliwoda, piekielnik, złośnik

• raptus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• raptus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French raptus, from Latin raptus.

raptus n (uncountable)

1. raptus