# capto
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkap.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkap.to]

### Verb

capto
* first-person singular present indicative of captar

## Galician
### Verb

capto
* first-person singular present indicative of captar

## Italian
### Verb

capto
* first-person singular present indicative of captare

### Anagrams

* copta

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkap.toː/, [ˈkäpt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkap.to/, [ˈkäpt̪o]

### Etymology 1

From capiō (“take, capture”) +‎ -tō. See captus.

#### Alternative forms

* cattō (Late Latin)

#### Verb

captō (present infinitive captāre, perfect active captāvī, supine captātum); first conjugation
* to strive to seize, catch or grasp at
** (by extension) to strive to see or hear
* (figuratively) to seek, aim at

##### Derived terms

* captābilis
* captātiō
* captātor
* captitō
* disceptō

##### Related terms

* capiō
* capsa
* capsārius
* capsella
* capsula
* capsus
* capta
* captātōrius
* captātrīx
* captensula
* captiō
* captiōsē
* captiōsus
* captitō
* captiuncula
* captīva
* captīvātiō
* captīvātor
* captīvitās
* captīvō
* captīvus
* captor
* captrīx
* captūra
* captus

##### Descendants

(See also cattō.)
* Balkano-Romance: ("search, seek"; possibly via *cabtō)
** Aromanian: caftu
** Romanian: căuta, căta
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Italian: cattare (“catch”) (regional or archaic)
** Venetan: catar (“find”)
*** →? Dalmatian: catur (“find”)
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: cjatâ (“find”)
** Romansch: chattar, cattar, catar, chatter
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: catà (“catch”)
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
** *accaptāre
** *captiāre
** *excaptāre
*** Italian: scattare
** *recaptāre
*** Italian: ricattare
** *reexcaptāre
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: captar
** → Dutch: capteren
** → French: capter
** → Galician: captar
** → Italian: captare
** → Occitan: captar
** → Portuguese: captar
** → Romanian: capta
** → Spanish: captar

#### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “captare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 318
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “catar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 920

#### Further reading

* “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* capto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to try and raise a laugh: risum captare to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

captō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of captus

## Portuguese
### Verb

capto
* first-person singular present indicative of captar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkabto/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -abto
* Syllabification: cap‧to

### Verb

capto
* first-person singular present indicative of captar