captivité
French, noun/kap.ti.vi.te/
captivité is spelled C-A-P-T-I-V-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Captivité is a French feminine noun meaning “captivity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Privation de liberté ; esclavage”.
What does captivité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecaptivity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Privation de liberté ; esclavage. 2. Situation d’un prisonnier de guerre. 3. État d'une personne subjuguée. 4. Absence de liberté pour un animal sauvage, notamment dans un zoo.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of captivité
- captivités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce captivité?
- /kap.ti.vi.te/
- \kap.ti.vi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to captivité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is captivité in French?
captivité appears 4.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).