captio

Latin

Etymology

From capiō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.ti.oː/, [ˈkäpt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.t͡si.o/, [ˈkäpt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

captiō f (genitive captiōnis); third declension

1. deception, fraud, deceit, trick
2. quibble
3. catch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	captiō	captiōnēs
Genitive	captiōnis	captiōnum
Dative	captiōnī	captiōnibus
Accusative	captiōnem	captiōnēs
Ablative	captiōne	captiōnibus
Vocative	captiō	captiōnēs

Derived terms

• captensula
• captiuncula

Descendants

• → Catalan: capció
• → English: caption

References

• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• captio 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)
• captio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio