captivator

English

Noun

captivator (plural captivators)

A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
- 1858 Mary Cowden Clarke - World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
  Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.

Latin

Verb

captīvātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō
third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō

References

captivator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
captivator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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