Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.pi.oː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CAPIOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPIO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.pi.o]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#CAPIOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPIO

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old LatinCategory:Latin terms inherited from Old Latin#CAPIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Old Latin#CAPIO kapiō, from Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#CAPIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#CAPIO *kapjō, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#CAPIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CAPIO *kapyéti, from the root *kap- (“to seize, grab”).

Cognate with Albanian kap,^[1][2] Breton kavout, Welsh cael, English have, heave, Lithuanian kàmpt, and Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō).

Etymology 2

From the above verb + -iōCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -io (abstract noun)#CAPIO.

References

Further reading

• “capio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
    
  • to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
    
  • to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
    
  • to suffer loss, harm, damage: detrimentum capere, accipere, facere
    
  • to derive pleasure from a thing: voluptatem ex aliqua re capere or percipere
    
  • to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another: coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re
    
  • to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • I am undecided..: incertus sum, quid consilii capiam
    
  • I forget something: oblivio alicuius rei me capit
    
  • to take a lesson from some one's example: sibi exemplum sumere ex aliquo or exemplum capere de aliquo
    
  • to take pleasure in a thing: laetitiam capere or percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • to be vexed about a thing: dolorem capere (percipere) ex aliqua re
    
  • to take courage: animum capere, colligere
    
  • to be touched with pity: misericordia moveri, capi (De Or. 2. 47)
    
  • the house is not large enough for all: domus non omnes capit (χωρειν)
    
  • to take food: cibum sumere, capere
    
  • let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
    
  • to take up one's arms: arma capere, sumere
    
  • to occupy a position (with troops): capere, occupare locum
    
  • to capture horses: capere equos
    
  • to take, storm a town: oppidum capere, expugnare
    
  • to take to flight: fugam capessere, capere
    
  • to take a person alive: capere aliquem vivum
    
  • to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere
    
  • (ambiguous) bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)
    
  • (ambiguous) with head covered: capite obvoluto
    
  • (ambiguous) to be blind: oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be affected by disease in every limb; to be paralysed: omnibus membris captum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to be out of one's mind: mente captum esse, mente alienata esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere
    
  • (ambiguous) to subtract something from the capital: de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to condemn some one to death: capitis or capite damnare aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to repeal a death-sentence passed on a person: capitis absolvere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) Solon made it a capital offence to..: Solo capite sanxit, si quis... (Att. 10. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “capiō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 89