The corpus record — Latin

hosticapas

who captures enemies

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What it meant

1. hosticapas — de Vaan

hosticapas 'who captures enemies' (Paul, ex F.\ urbicapus 'who captures cities' (PL); capistrum 'halter, band' (Cato+); accipere 'to take, receive' (Naev.+), concipere 'to receive, perceive' (PL+), decipere 'to deceive' (PL+), incipere 'to start' (PL+), — [de Vaan, s.v. hosticapas, p. 103]

2. hosticapas — Lewis & Short

hosticapas, hostium captor, Paul. ex

Fest. p. 102 Müll. [hostis-capio; the final

I s is archaic, as in PARICIDAS for parricida].

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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