captivator
English edit
Noun edit
captivator (plural captivators)
- 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.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kap.tiːˈu̯aː.tor/, [käpt̪iːˈu̯äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kap.tiˈva.tor/, [käpt̪iˈväːt̪or]
Noun edit
captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension
- he that take captive
- 354 AD — 430 AD, Augustine of Hippo, Epistulae, 199
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | captīvātor | captīvātōrēs |
| Genitive | captīvātōris | captīvātōrum |
| Dative | captīvātōrī | captīvātōribus |
| Accusative | captīvātōrem | captīvātōrēs |
| Ablative | captīvātōre | captīvātōribus |
| Vocative | captīvātor | captīvātōrēs |
Verb edit
captīvātor
References edit
- “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.