raptus

English

Etymology

From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹaptəs/

Noun

raptus (plural raptuses)

  1. (pathology) A seizure.
  2. A state of rapture.
    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351:
      In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.

Anagrams

Ido

Verb

raptus

  1. conditional of raptar

Italian

Etymology

Latin

Noun

raptus m (invariable)

  1. fit, raptus, brainstorm

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈrap.tʊs]

Participle

raptus m (feminine rapta, neuter raptum); first/second declension

  1. snatched, having been snatched, grabbed, having been grabbed, carried off, having been carried off

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative raptus rapta raptum raptī raptae rapta
genitive raptī raptae raptī raptōrum raptārum raptōrum
dative raptō raptō raptīs
accusative raptum raptam raptum raptōs raptās rapta
ablative raptō raptā raptō raptīs
vocative rapte rapta raptum raptī raptae rapta

Noun

raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension

  1. violent snatching
  2. violent dragging away
  3. robbery
  4. thievery
  5. carrying off
  6. abduction

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative raptus raptūs
genitive raptūs raptuum
dative raptuī raptibus
accusative raptum raptūs
ablative raptū raptibus
vocative raptus raptūs

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  • raptus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • raptus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • raptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
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