Word: recaptives
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: re
cap
tives
Definition: Plural of recaptive. A slave freed by the British Royal Navy from a slave ship and brought to Freetown, now Sierra Leone's capital city.
Morphemes:
Affix: re-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: again, anew
Etymology Compounds: Affix: re-
Language: la
Decoded: re-
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: back, backwards
Affix: captive
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: captus
Language: la
Decoded: captus
Meaning: to capture
Affix: -ivus
Language: la
Decoded: -ivus
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Adjective suffix.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.