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cap⋅tor

  [kap-ter]
–noun
a person who has captured a person or thing.
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Origin:
1640–50; < LL, equiv. to cap(ere) to take + -tor -tor
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cap·tor   (kāp'tər, -tôr')   
n.  One that takes another as a captive.

[Late Latin captor, hunter, from Latin capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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