captus

From Proto-Italic *kaptos, from Proto-Indo-European *kaptós (“seized, held”). Synchronically, perfect passive participle of capiō (“seize, take”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.tus/, [ˈkäpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.tus/, [ˈkäpt̪us]
• Hyphenation: cap‧tus

captus (feminine capta, neuter captum); first/second-declension participle

1. captured, having been captured, seized, having been seized, taken, having been taken
2. taken on, having been taken on
3. taken in, having been taken in, understood, having been understood
4. afflicted, having been afflicted

First/second-declension adjective.

captus m (genitive captūs); fourth declension

1. A taking, seizing.
2. A thing which is taken or grasped.
3. A prisoner, captive.
4. A notion, capacity to comprehend.

Fourth-declension noun.

• (a taking): capiō
• (prisoner): captīvus

• capta
• captīvus
• captō
• captor
• captūra

• “captus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• captus 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)
• captus 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 be blind: oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be affected by disease in every limb; to be paralysed: omnibus membris captum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be out of one's mind: mente captum esse, mente alienata esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere