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From capiō (“take, capture”) +‎ -tō. See captus. Compare Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō).

captō (present infinitive captāre, perfect active captāvī, supine captātum); first conjugation

Insular Romance:
- ⇒ Sardinian: acatare, agatare (“to search, seek”)
Balkano-Romance: ("to search, seek"; possibly via *cabtō)
- Aromanian: caftu
- Romanian: căuta, căta
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: cattare (“to catch”) (regional or archaic)
- Venetan: catar (“to find”)
  - →? Dalmatian: catur (“find”)
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: cjatâ (“to find”)
- Romansh: chattar, cattar, catar, chatter
Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: cater (“to pick”)
- Lombard: catà (“to catch”)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
- *accaptāre
- *captiāre
- *excaptāre
  - Italian: scattare
- *recaptāre
  - Italian: ricattare
- *reexcaptāre

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “captare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 318

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “catar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 920

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