captio

From capiō + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.t͡si.o]

captiō f (genitive captiōnis); third declension

1. deception, fraud, deceit, trick
2. quibble
3. catch

Third-declension noun.

• captensula
• captiuncula

• → Catalan: capció
• → English: caption

• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "captio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “captio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio