captor

English

Alternative forms

captour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.

Noun

captor (plural captors)

One who is holding a captive or captives.
One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.

Synonyms

(one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper
(one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber

Translations

one who is holding a captive

German: Entführer (de) m
Maori: kaihopu

Portuguese: captor m
Spanish: secuestrador (es) m

one who has captured something or someone

German: Fänger (de) m
Portuguese: captor m

Spanish: captor (es) m

See also

Anagrams

cartop, proact

Latin

Verb

captor

first-person singular present passive indicative of captō

References

captor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
captor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)

captor

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