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semicaptive

adj

Etymology

From semi- + captive.

  1. derived from *kap-<id:seize>✻ — “seize, hold”
  2. derived from captīvus
  3. inherited from captif
  4. prefixed as semicaptive — “semi + captive”

Definitions

  1. Kept partially in captivity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semicaptive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA