# raptus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹaptəs/

### Noun

raptus (plural raptuses)
* A state of rapture.
** 1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 412:In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.
* (pathology) A seizure.

### Anagrams

* prutas, stupra

## Ido
### Verb

raptus
* conditional of raptar

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrap.tus/
* Rhymes: -aptus
* Hyphenation: ràp‧tus

### Noun

raptus m (invariable)
* fit, raptus, brainstorm
* rampage

### References

* ↑ raptus in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* stupra

## Latin
### Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈräpt̪us]

### Participle

raptus (feminine rapta, neuter raptum, adverb raptim); first/second-declension participle
* snatched, having been snatched; grabbed, having been grabbed; carried off, having been carried off; kidnapped, having been kidnapped
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.28:et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēsand the hated race, and the honors [given] the kidnapped Ganymede (Juno hated the Trojans and was jealous of prince Ganymede: Jupiter's eagle had snatched up and carried off the youth who then became the heavenly cupbearer. See: Ganymede (mythology).)

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Noun

raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension
* violent snatching
* violent dragging away
* robbery
* thievery
* rape
* carrying off
* abduction

#### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: ratto
** Sicilian: rattu
* Ibero-Romance:
** Galician: rauto
** Portuguese: rato
** Spanish: rato
* Borrowed:
** → English: rapt
** → French: rapt, raptus
** → Portuguese: rapto
** → Spanish: rapto

### See also

* raptor (“thief, robber”)

### References

* “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “raptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* raptus 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)
* raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin raptus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrap.tus/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aptus
* Syllabification: rap‧tus

### Noun

raptus m pers
* (dated) hothead, spitfire (short-tempered, quarrelsome person)
    Synonyms: awanturnik, kłótnik, nerwus, paliwoda, piekielnik, złośnik

#### Derived terms

* raptusowy

#### Related terms

* raptusowo

### Further reading

* raptus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* raptus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French raptus, from Latin raptus.

### Noun

raptus n (uncountable)
* raptus