captivate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪvət/
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• General-American: /ˈkæptəˌvət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪveɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈkæptəˌveɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 P T IH0 V EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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See Etymology 1. Equivalent to captive + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin captīvātus, the perfect passive participle of captīvō (“to capture”), from Latin captīvus (“captive, prisoner”) (ultimately from capiō (“to capture, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs). Equivalent to captive + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Arabic: أَسَرَ (ʔasara) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Arabic: فَتَنَ (fatana) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Belarusian: зачаро́ўваць (začarówvacʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Belarusian: зачарава́ць (začaravácʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Bulgarian: очаровам (očarovam) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Catalan: captivar — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 著迷 — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 着迷 — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Czech: uchvátit — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Czech: upoutat — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Czech: okouzlit — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Dutch: bekoren — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Dutch: boeien — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Dutch: fascineren — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Finnish: kiehtoa — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• French: captiver — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• German: bestechen — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• German: bezaubern — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• German: entzücken — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• German: faszinieren — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• German: fesseln — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: elbűvöl — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: elragadtat — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: lebilincsel — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: lefegyverez — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: lenyűgöz — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: levesz a lábáról — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: magával ragad — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: megbabonáz — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: meghódít — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: megigéz — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: megnyer — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: megragad — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Hungarian: rabul ejt — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Italian: accattivare — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Italian: attirare l'attenzione — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Italian: attrarre — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Italian: catturare — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Japanese: 惹き付ける (hikitsukeru) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Macedonian: ма́ѓепса (máǵepsa) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Macedonian: о́свои (ósvoi) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Māori: ātahu — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Portuguese: cativar — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: очаро́вывать (očaróvyvatʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: очарова́ть (očarovátʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: пленя́ть (plenjátʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: плени́ть (plenítʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: зачаро́вывать (začaróvyvatʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Russian: зачарова́ть (začarovátʹ) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Scottish Gaelic: beò-ghlac — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Serbo-Croatian: оча́рати — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Serbo-Croatian: očárati — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Spanish: cautivar — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Spanish: captivar — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Spanish: embelesar — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Swedish: fängsla — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest
• Tamil: கவர் (kavar) — to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest