caitive

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪtɪv/

Noun

caitive (plural caitives)

(obsolete) A captive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  What hard mishap him brought to such distresse,
  And made that caitives thrall, the thrall of wretchedness
- 1567, Ovid, “(please specify the book number or chapter)”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], OCLC 1085261494:
  
  When whelmed in their wicked worke those cursed Caitives lay
  The Earth their mother tooke their bloud yet warme and (as they say)
  Did give it life.

Related terms

caitiff

Anagrams

viciate

Old French

Etymology

Latin captivus.

Noun

caitive f (oblique plural caitives, nominative singular caitive, nominative plural caitives)

female equivalent of caitif

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