captan

English

Noun

captan (uncountable)

1. A particular phthalimide fungicide.
   • 1961, New Zealand Wheat Review, numbers 8-15, page 38:

     Control can be achieved by dusting or slurry-treating the seed wheat with one of a number of fungicides that are available. Those recommended are all non-mercurials and include formulations based on captan, benquinox, and methyl arsenic sulphide.

2. (organic chemistry) Ethyl mercaptan.

Anagrams

• cat nap, cat-nap, catnap

Galician

Verb

captan

1. third-person plural present indicative of captar

Manx

Etymology

From English captain, from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

captan m (genitive singular captan, plural captanyn)

1. (military) captain, commodore
2. skipper

Derived terms

• aachaptan
• ard-chaptan
• captanys

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
captan	chaptan	gaptan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabtan/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪ãn]
• Rhymes: -abtan
• Syllabification: cap‧tan

Verb

captan

1. third-person plural present indicative of captar