captura

See also: capturá and capturà

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəpˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kapˈtu.ɾa]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin captūra.

Noun

captura f (plural captures)

1. capture
2. catch (that which is captured or caught)

Derived terms

• capturar

Etymology 2

Verb

captura

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “captura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “captura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “captura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “captura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

captura

1. third-person singular past historic of capturer

Galician

Verb

captura

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From capiō (“capture, seize, take”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kapˈtuː.ra/, [käpˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kapˈtu.ra/, [käpˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

captūra f (genitive captūrae); first declension

1. (of animals) A taking, catching; capture.
2. That which is taken; prey, catch.
3. (gained by low or immoral employments) Gain, profit, takings, earnings, reward, pay, hire, wages.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	captūra	captūrae
Genitive	captūrae	captūrārum
Dative	captūrae	captūrīs
Accusative	captūram	captūrās
Ablative	captūrā	captūrīs
Vocative	captūra	captūrae

Descendants

• Catalan: captura
• English: capture
• French: capture
• Galician: captura
• Italian: cattura
• Portuguese: captura
• Romanian: captură
• Spanish: captura

Participle

captūra

1. inflection of captūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

captūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of captūrus

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈptu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cap‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin captūra.

Noun

captura f (plural capturas)

1. capture, seizure

Derived terms

• capturar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

captura

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “captura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French capturer.

Verb

a captura (third-person singular present capturează, past participle capturat) 1st conj.

1. to capture

Conjugation

    conjugation of captura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a captura
gerund			capturând
past participle			capturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	capturez	capturezi	capturează	capturăm	capturați	capturează
	imperfect	capturam	capturai	captura	capturam	capturați	capturau
	simple perfect	capturai	capturași	captură	capturarăm	capturarăți	capturară
	pluperfect	capturasem	capturaseși	capturase	capturaserăm	capturaserăți	capturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să capturez	să capturezi	să captureze	să capturăm	să capturați	să captureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		capturează			capturați
	negative		nu captura			nu capturați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabˈtuɾa/ [kaβ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cap‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin captura.

Noun

captura f (plural capturas)

1. capture
2. catch (that which is captured or caught)
3. screenshot

   Synonyms: captura de pantalla, pantallazo

Derived terms

• busca y captura
• búsqueda y captura
• captura de pantalla
• captura del regulador
• capturar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

captura

1. inflection of capturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “captura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014