urbicapus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Plautus, from urbs (“city”) +‎ capiō (“to capture”) +‎ -us.

Noun

urbicapus m (genitive urbicapī); second declension

1. (hapax) a city capturer
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1052-1055:

     Mil. Te compellare et complecti et contrectare. Nam nisi tu illi fers suppetias, iam illa animum despondebit. Age, mi Achilles, fiat quod te oro, serva illam pulchram pulchre, exprome benignum ex te ingenium, urbicape, occisor regum.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	urbicapus	urbicapī
Genitive	urbicapī	urbicapōrum
Dative	urbicapō	urbicapīs
Accusative	urbicapum	urbicapōs
Ablative	urbicapō	urbicapīs
Vocative	urbicape	urbicapī

References

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