captura Latin · revision 8122

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca|origins=la capiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kapˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kapˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''captūra''' ''f'' (genitive captūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from ⟨capt-⟩, the participle stem of [[capiō]] “to take, seize”, with the suffix [[-ūra]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Seneca, whom he dates 4 BC–65 AD.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's citations are from Pliny the Elder, of catching animals.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short mark it as post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant the catching of wild animals, birds and fish, as Pliny the Elder's ''captūra piscium'' “fishing”, and by metonymy the catch itself, as hunters with their bag.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Pliny it also meant gain, earnings.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin used it for the arrest of a person, a fishery and fishing plant, a bird trap, and the requisition of goods.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for the taking of dues.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''cattura'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''captura'', and through French ''capture'' it gave [[en|capture]] in the 1540s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of catching fish and of gain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''capture'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The catching of animals, birds or fish; a catch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Gain, earnings.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|Capture]], arrest; a [[m|en|fishery]]; a bird trap.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[capiō]]

+ * [[captīvus]]

+ * [[en|capture]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}