Infinitive
kapti
Forms
Tenses
| Present | kaptas |
| Past | kaptis |
| Future | kaptos |
| Conditional | kaptus |
| Imperative | kaptu! |
Participles
| Active past | kaptinta |
| Active present | kaptanta |
| Active future | kaptonta |
| Passive past | kaptita |
| Passive present | kaptta |
| Passive future | kaptota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
6. Proto-Italic *kapjō
7. Old Latin kapiō
8. Latin capiō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
10. Proto-Italic *-tos
11. Latin -tus
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
17. Proto-Italic *-ājō
18. Proto-Italic *-āō
19. Latin -ō
20. Latin -tō
21. Latin captōbor.
22. Esperanto kapti
23. Borrowed from Latin captō. Doublet of ĉasi.
Verbs referencing "kapti"
Ido kaptar.
Sample Sentences
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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.) [2002, La Sankta Biblio, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016, I Makabeoj 3:12:]
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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.") [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:]