captivator

captivator

English

Noun

captivator (plural captivators)

  1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
    • 1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages:
      Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin captus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin īvus
Latin captīvus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin captīvō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin captīvātor

    From captīvō + -tor.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension

    1. he that take captive

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative captīvātor captīvātōrēs
    genitive captīvātōris captīvātōrum
    dative captīvātōrī captīvātōribus
    accusative captīvātōrem captīvātōrēs
    ablative captīvātōre captīvātōribus
    vocative captīvātor captīvātōrēs

    Verb

    captīvātor

    1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō

    References

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