captivus

From captus (“to capture”) +‎ -īvus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kapˈtiː.u̯us/, [käpˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kapˈti.vus/, [käpˈt̪iːvus]

captīvus m (genitive captīvī, feminine captīva); second declension

1. a captive, a prisoner

Second-declension noun.

captīvus (feminine captīva, neuter captīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. captive
2. captured
3. imprisoned

First/second-declension adjective.

• captīva
• captīvitas
• captīvō

• “captivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• captivus 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)
• captivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to exchange prisoners: captivos permutare, commutare
    
  • to ransom prisoners: captivos redimere (Off. 2. 18)
    
  • to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere