captivator

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English

Noun

captivator (plural captivators)

  1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
    • 1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages:
      Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From captīvō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension

  1. he that take captive

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative captīvātor captīvātōrēs
genitive captīvātōris captīvātōrum
dative captīvātōrī captīvātōribus
accusative captīvātōrem captīvātōrēs
ablative captīvātōre captīvātōribus
vocative captīvātor captīvātōrēs

Verb

captīvātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō

References

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