captator Latin · revision 36863

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la capiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kapˈtaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kapˈtaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''captātor''' ''m'' (genitive captātōris, feminine captātrix); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|captō|-tor|t1=to try to catch, strive for]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) and [[m|la|captō]] is formed on the past participle of [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan derives [[m|la|capiō]] from [[itc-pro|*kap-i-]] and either [[ine-pro|*kh₂p-i-]] or a non-Indo-European root, “to seize”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|κάπτω|tr=káptō|t=to gulp down]] and [[grc|κωπή|tr=kōpḗ|t=grip]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Horace,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of a legacy hunter in the ''Satires'': ''captātorque dabit rīsūs Nāsīca Corānō'', “and Nasica the legacy hunter will give Coranus a laugh”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In general it is a person who reaches for or courts something;^(OLD 2012) Livy speaks of one who courts the popular breeze, ''captātor aurae populāris''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Its special sense is the legacy hunter who courts a rich childless person in hope of an inheritance,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) a figure found in Seneca, Petronius and Juvenal;^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Juvenal even calls a market that serves to win favour a ''captātor macellum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Prudentius uses it of a seducer.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin the MLW records it for a catcher or trapper, one eager for praise or honour, and a moneylender or usurer;^(MLW) John of Salisbury speaks of seekers after glory.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a legacy hunter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of one who courts popular favour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius calls a legacy hunter ''callidus captātor'', “a cunning hunter”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius uses it of a seducer.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1072 – Hermann of Sankt Gallen uses it of moneylenders.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One who strives to obtain or [[m|en|court|alt=courts]] something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|legacy hunter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|seducer]].^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A catcher, trapper; a [[m|en|moneylender]], [[m|en|usurer]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[captātōrius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}