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9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb attract; cause to be enamored
originLearned 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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- captive 14
- activate 13
- cavitate 13
- apatetic 12
- capitate 12
- cavetti 12
- active 11
- atavic 11
- caveat 11
- vacate 11
- capita 10
- tipcat 10