captivity

Language

English

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CAPTIVITY Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)#CAPTIVITY

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#CAPTIVITY Category:English terms derived from Middle English#CAPTIVITY captivite, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#CAPTIVITY captīvitās. By surface analysis, captive +‎ -ityCategory:English terms suffixed with -ity#CAPTIVITY. Entered into the English lexicon around the 14th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kæpˈtɪvɪti/Category:English 4-syllable words#CAPTIVITY Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CAPTIVITY
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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Hyphenation: cap‧tiv‧i‧ty

Noun

captivity (countable and uncountable, plural captivities)Category:English lemmas#CAPTIVITY Category:English nouns#CAPTIVITY Category:English uncountable nouns#CAPTIVITY Category:English countable nouns#CAPTIVITY Category:English countable nouns#CAPTIVITY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#CAPTIVITY Category:Pages with entries#CAPTIVITY Category:Pages with 1 entry#CAPTIVITY

The state of being captive.
held in captivityCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTIVITY

escape from captivityCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTIVITY

The animals lived in captivity at the zoo.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTIVITY

He wrote a memoir about his years in captivity.Category:English terms with usage examples#CAPTIVITY
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#CAPTIVITY) A group of people/beings captive.
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
long captivityCategory:English terms with collocations#CAPTIVITY

Derived terms

Translations

state of being captive

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Albanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Albanian#CAPTIVITY
Altai:
Southern Altai: олјо (olǰo)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#CAPTIVITY
Arabic: أَسْر m (ʔasr)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAPTIVITY, سَبْي m (saby)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAPTIVITY
Armenian: գերություն (hy) (gerutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CAPTIVITY
Belarusian: пало́н m (palón)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#CAPTIVITY, няво́ля f (njavólja)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#CAPTIVITY
Bulgarian: плен (bg) m (plen)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CAPTIVITY
Catalan: captivitat fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CAPTIVITY, captiveri mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#CAPTIVITY
Chinese:
Mandarin: 囚禁 (zh) (qiújìn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 關押 / 关押 (zh) (guānyā)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 拘禁 (zh) (jūjìn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 拘押 (zh) (jūyā)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 監禁 / 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 樊籠 / 樊笼 (zh) (fánlóng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 桎梏 (zh) (zhìgù)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY, 囹圄 (zh) (língyǔ)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAPTIVITY Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAPTIVITY
Czech: zajetí (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CAPTIVITY
Dutch: gevangenschap (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#CAPTIVITY
Esperanto: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Esperanto#CAPTIVITY
Estonian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Estonian#CAPTIVITY
Finnish: vankeus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAPTIVITY
French: captivité (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#CAPTIVITY
Galician: catividade (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#CAPTIVITY, cativerio (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#CAPTIVITY
Georgian: ტყვეობა (ṭq̇veoba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAPTIVITY, მონობა (monoba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAPTIVITY
German: Gefangenschaft (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#CAPTIVITY
Greek: αιχμαλωσία (el) f (aichmalosía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CAPTIVITY
Ancient Greek: αἰχμαλωσία f (aikhmalōsía)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#CAPTIVITY
Hebrew: שֶׁבִי (he) m (shévi)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#CAPTIVITY, שִׁבְיָה f (shivyá)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#CAPTIVITY
Hungarian: fogság (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CAPTIVITY
Irish: broid fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#CAPTIVITY
Italian: cattività (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#CAPTIVITY
Japanese: 監禁 (ja) (かんきん, kankin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#CAPTIVITY
Korean: 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CAPTIVITY
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دیلی (dîlî)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#CAPTIVITY
Latgalian: navaļaCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#CAPTIVITY, vaņgeibaCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#CAPTIVITY
Latin: captīvitās fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#CAPTIVITY
Latvian: gūstsCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#CAPTIVITY
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lithuanian#CAPTIVITY
Macedonian: заробеништво n (zarobeništvo)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#CAPTIVITY, пленство n (plenstvo)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#CAPTIVITY
Māori: whakarauCategory:Terms with Māori translations#CAPTIVITY
Persian: اسارت (fa) (esârat)Category:Terms with Persian translations#CAPTIVITY
Polish: niewola (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CAPTIVITY
Portuguese: catividade fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAPTIVITY
Romanian: captivitate (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CAPTIVITY
Russian: плен (ru) m (plen)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAPTIVITY, нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAPTIVITY, поло́н (ru) m (polón)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAPTIVITY (archaic or poetic)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: заробљени́штво nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CAPTIVITY

Latin: zarobljeníštvo (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CAPTIVITY
Shor: олча (olča)Category:Terms with Shor translations#CAPTIVITY
Slovak: zajatie nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#CAPTIVITY
Slovene: ujetništvo (sl) nCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#CAPTIVITY
Spanish: cautividad (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAPTIVITY, cautiverio (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAPTIVITY, captiverio mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAPTIVITY, captividad fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAPTIVITY
Swedish: fångenskap (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CAPTIVITY
Turkish: esaret (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CAPTIVITY
Ottoman Turkish: اسیرلك (esirlik)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#CAPTIVITY
Ukrainian: поло́н m (polón)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#CAPTIVITY, нево́ля f (nevólja)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#CAPTIVITY
Vietnamese: tù binh (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CAPTIVITY
Welsh: caethiwed (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#CAPTIVITY

captives — see captive

period of being captive

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Czech: zajetí (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CAPTIVITY
Finnish: vankeus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAPTIVITY, vankeusaikaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#CAPTIVITY
German: Gefangenschaft (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#CAPTIVITY
Portuguese: cativeiro (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAPTIVITY
Russian: нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAPTIVITY, плен (ru) m (plen)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAPTIVITY
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: заробљени́штво nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CAPTIVITY

Latin: zarobljeníštvo (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#CAPTIVITY
Swedish: fångenskap (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CAPTIVITY

See also

Category:English 4-syllable words Category:English countable nouns Category:English lemmas Category:English nouns Category:English terms derived from Latin Category:English terms derived from Middle English Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize) Category:English terms inherited from Middle English Category:English terms suffixed with -ity Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation Category:English terms with audio pronunciation Category:English terms with collocations Category:English terms with obsolete senses Category:English terms with usage examples Category:English uncountable nouns Category:Entries with translation boxes Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Category:Pages with 1 entry Category:Pages with entries Category:Requests for translations into Albanian Category:Requests for translations into Esperanto Category:Requests for translations into Estonian Category:Requests for translations into Lithuanian Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations Category:Terms with Arabic translations Category:Terms with Armenian translations Category:Terms with Belarusian translations Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations Category:Terms with Catalan translations Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations Category:Terms with Czech translations Category:Terms with Dutch translations Category:Terms with Finnish translations Category:Terms with French translations Category:Terms with Galician translations Category:Terms with Georgian translations Category:Terms with German translations Category:Terms with Greek translations Category:Terms with Hebrew translations Category:Terms with Hungarian translations Category:Terms with Irish translations Category:Terms with Italian translations Category:Terms with Japanese translations Category:Terms with Korean translations Category:Terms with Latgalian translations Category:Terms with Latin translations Category:Terms with Latvian translations Category:Terms with Macedonian translations Category:Terms with Mandarin translations Category:Terms with Māori translations Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations Category:Terms with Persian translations Category:Terms with Polish translations Category:Terms with Portuguese translations Category:Terms with Romanian translations Category:Terms with Russian translations Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Category:Terms with Shor translations Category:Terms with Slovak translations Category:Terms with Slovene translations Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations Category:Terms with Spanish translations Category:Terms with Swedish translations Category:Terms with Turkish translations Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations Category:Terms with Welsh translations