raptus
See also: Raptus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
raptus (plural raptuses)
- (pathology) A seizure.
- A state of rapture.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 351:
- In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.
Anagrams edit
Ido edit
Verb edit
raptus
- conditional of raptar
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
raptus m (invariable)
References edit
- ^ raptus in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪us]
Participle edit
raptus (feminine rapta, neuter raptum, adverb raptim); first/second-declension participle
- snatched, having been snatched; grabbed, having been grabbed; carried off, having been carried off; kidnapped, having been kidnapped
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.28:
- et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēs
- and the hated race, and the honors [given] the kidnapped Ganymede
(Juno hated the Trojans and was jealous of prince Ganymede: Jupiter's eagle had snatched up and carried off the youth who then became the heavenly cupbearer. See: Ganymede (mythology).)
- and the hated race, and the honors [given] the kidnapped Ganymede
- et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēs
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | raptus | rapta | raptum | raptī | raptae | rapta | |
Genitive | raptī | raptae | raptī | raptōrum | raptārum | raptōrum | |
Dative | raptō | raptō | raptīs | ||||
Accusative | raptum | raptam | raptum | raptōs | raptās | rapta | |
Ablative | raptō | raptā | raptō | raptīs | |||
Vocative | rapte | rapta | raptum | raptī | raptae | rapta |
Noun edit
raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | raptus | raptūs |
Genitive | raptūs | raptuum |
Dative | raptuī | raptibus |
Accusative | raptum | raptūs |
Ablative | raptū | raptibus |
Vocative | raptus | raptūs |
Descendants edit
- English: rapt
- French: rapt, raptus
- Galician: rauto
- Italian: ratto
- Portuguese: rapto
- Sicilian: rattu
- Spanish: rapto, rato
See also edit
- raptor (“thief, robber”)
References edit
- “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- raptus 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)
- raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
- (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
Polish edit
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Noun edit
raptus m pers
- (dated) hothead, spitfire (short-tempered, quarrelsome person)
- Synonyms: awanturnik, kłótnik, nerwus, paliwoda, piekielnik, złośnik
Declension edit
Declension of raptus
Derived terms edit
adjective
Related terms edit
adverb
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French raptus, from Latin raptus.
Noun edit
raptus n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of raptus (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) raptus | raptusul |
genitive/dative | (unui) raptus | raptusului |
vocative | raptusule |