captare

captare is a Latin form of capto, meaning “try to catch, chase; strive for; hunt (for legacies)”. It is the 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.17: … semper fore. quis autem est iste, cui id exploratum possit esse? Epicurus vero ea dicit, ut mihi quidem risus captare videatur. adfirmat enim quodam loco, si uratur sapiens, si crucietur—expectas fortasse, dum dicat: patietur, …

All forms of capto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.