kapti

Borrowed from Latin captō. Doublet of ĉasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapti/

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• Rhymes: -apti
• Hyphenation: kap‧ti

kapti (present kaptas, past kaptis, future kaptos, conditional kaptus, volitive kaptu)

1. (transitive) to catch, to capture
   • 2002, La Sankta Biblio‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2016, I Makabeoj 3:12:

     Ili kaptis la predon, sed la glavon de Apolonio prenis Judas. Kaj de tiam li ĉiam batalis per ĝi.

     Then the Israelites seized their spoils. Judas took Apollonius’ sword and used it in battle for the rest of his life.

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     Polemarĥo, la filo de Kefalo, vidis nin de malproksime dum ni iradis hejmen kaj li ordonis al sia sklavo kuri al ni kaj ordoni ke ni atendu. La sklavo kaptis la malantaŭan parton de mia vesto kaj diris, "Polemarĥo ordonas ke vi atendu."

     Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we were going home and he ordered his slave to run to us and order us to wait. The slave caught the back part of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands you to wait."

     (literally, “Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we went home and he ordered to his slave to run to us and order that we wait. The slave caught the back of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands that you wait."”)

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