captor
Portuguese, noun/kapˈtoʁ/
captor is spelled C-A-P-T-O-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Captor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “captor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dispositivo que detecta ou capta uma grandeza física; sensor, transdutor, detector”.
What does captor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecaptor
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dispositivo que detecta ou capta uma grandeza física; sensor, transdutor, detector 2. indivíduo que captura ou apreende algo ou alguém
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of captor
- captores plural
- captora feminine
- captoras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce captor?
- Brazil /kapˈtoʁ/
- Brazil [kapˈtoh]
- Brazil /ka.piˈtoʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to captor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is captor in Portuguese?
captor appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).