captio

Latin

Etymology

From capiō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.t͡si.o]

Noun

captiō f (genitive captiōnis); third declension

1. deception, fraud, deceit, trick
2. quibble
3. catch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	captiō	captiōnēs
genitive	captiōnis	captiōnum
dative	captiōnī	captiōnibus
accusative	captiōnem	captiōnēs
ablative	captiōne	captiōnibus
vocative	captiō	captiōnēs

Derived terms

• captensula
• captiuncula

Descendants

• → Catalan: capció
• → English: caption

References

• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "captio", 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)
• “captio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio