captan

English

Noun

captan (uncountable)

  1. A particular phthalimide fungicide.
    • 1961, New Zealand Wheat Review (issues 8-15, page 38)
      Control can be achieved by dusting or slurry-treating the seed wheat with one of a number of fungicides that are available. Those recommended are all non-mercurials and include formulations based on captan, benquinox, and methyl arsenic sulphide.
  2. (chemistry) Ethyl mercaptan.

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

From English captain, from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

captan m (genitive singular captan, plural captanyn)

  1. (military) captain, commodore
  2. skipper

Derived terms

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
captanchaptangaptan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkabtan/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪ãn]
  • Rhymes: -abtan
  • Syllabification: cap‧tan

Verb

captan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of captar
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