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Latin
Etymology
From captus (“to capture”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
Noun
captīvus m (genitive captīvī, feminine captīva); second declension
- a captive, a prisoner
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Adjective
captīvus (feminine captīva, neuter captīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- captive
- captured
- imprisoned
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “captivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “captivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "captivus", 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)
- captivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to exchange prisoners: captivos permutare, commutare
- to ransom prisoners: captivos redimere (Off. 2. 18)
- to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere