captatio

Latin

Etymology

From captō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

captātiō f (genitive captātiōnis); third declension

1. legacy-hunting
2. feint

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	captātiō	captātiōnēs
Genitive	captātiōnis	captātiōnum
Dative	captātiōnī	captātiōnibus
Accusative	captātiōnem	captātiōnēs
Ablative	captātiōne	captātiōnibus
Vocative	captātiō	captātiōnēs

Descendants

• → French: captation
  • English: captation
• → Portuguese: captação

References

• “captatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• captatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • minute, pedantic carping at words: verborum aucupium or captatio