raptus

From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaptəs/

raptus (plural raptuses)

1. (pathology) A seizure.
2. A state of rapture.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351:

     In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dissevered from the body.

• prutas, stupra

raptus

1. conditional of raptar

Latin

raptus m (invariable)

1. fit, raptus, brainstorm
2. rampage

• stupra

Perfect passive participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tus/, [ˈrap.tʊs]

raptus m (feminine rapta, neuter raptum); first/second declension

1. snatched, having been snatched, grabbed, having been grabbed, carried off, having been carried off

First/second declension.

raptus m (genitive raptūs); fourth declension

1. violent snatching
2. violent dragging away
3. robbery
4. thievery
5. carrying off
6. abduction

Fourth declension.

• English: rapt
• French: rapt, raptus
• Galician: rauto
• Portuguese: rapto
• Spanish: rapto, rato

• raptor (“thief, robber”)

• raptus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• raptus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• raptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)