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From Latin raptus, from rapio (seize).

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Noun

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raptus (plural raptuses)

  1. A state of rapture.
  2. (pathology) A seizure.

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raptus

  1. conditional of raptar

Italian

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From Latin.

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raptus m (invariable)

  1. fit, raptus, brainstorm
  2. rampage

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  1. ^ raptus in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of rapiō (snatch, carry off).

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raptus (feminine rapta, neuter raptum, adverb raptim); first/second-declension participle

  1. 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).)

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
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

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raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension

  1. violent snatching
  2. violent dragging away
  3. robbery
  4. thievery
  5. rape
  6. carrying off
  7. abduction

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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

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  • English: rapt
  • French: rapt, raptus
  • Galician: rauto
  • Italian: ratto
  • Portuguese: rapto
  • Sicilian: rattu
  • Spanish: rapto, rato

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References

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  • 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)

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin raptus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrap.tus/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aptus
  • Syllabification: rap‧tus

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raptus m pers

  1. (dated) hothead, spitfire (short-tempered, quarrelsome person)
    Synonyms: awanturnik, kłótnik, nerwus, paliwoda, piekielnik, złośnik

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Further reading

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  • raptus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • raptus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French raptus, from Latin raptus.

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raptus n (uncountable)

  1. raptus

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