captio

From capiō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.t̪͡s̪i.o]

captiō f (genitive captiōnis); third declension

1. deception, fraud, deceit, trick
2. quibble
3. catch

Third-declension noun.

• captensula
• captiuncula

• → Catalan: capció
• → English: caption

• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “captio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "captio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• captio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a fallacious argument; sophism: conclusiuncula fallax or captio