captivator

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

• captivatress

 

Latin

Etymology

From captīvō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kap.tiːˈu̯aː.tor/, [käpt̪iːˈu̯äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kap.tiˈva.tor/, [käpt̪iˈväːt̪or]

Noun

captīvātor m (genitive captīvātōris); third declension

1. he that take captive
   • 354 AD — 430 AD, Augustine of Hippo, Epistulae, 199

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.