captan

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English

Noun

captan (uncountable)

  1. A particular phthalimide fungicide.
    • 1961, New Zealand Wheat Review, numbers 8-15, page 38:
      Control can be achieved by dusting or slurry-treating the seed wheat with one of a number of fungicides that are available. Those recommended are all non-mercurials and include formulations based on captan, benquinox, and methyl arsenic sulphide.
  2. (organic chemistry) Ethyl mercaptan.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

captan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of captar

Manx

Etymology

From English captain, from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

captan m (genitive singular captan, plural captanyn)

  1. (military) captain, commodore
  2. skipper

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
captan chaptan gaptan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabtan/
  • Rhymes: -abtan
  • Syllabification: cap‧tan

Verb

captan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of captar
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