rap / rept
to seize, snatch
Latin · rapere / raptus
Rap and rept words come from the Latin word for seizing. Something rapid snatches time away, and rapture seizes the mind with joy.
Memory trick
Something rapid snatches time; rapt is when joy snatches your whole mind.
Words from this root
- rapid (rap + id) — very quick, as if snatching timeबहुत तेज़
- rapidly (rapid + ly) — very quicklyबहुत तेज़ी से
- rapidity (rapid + ity) — great speedतेज़ी, द्रुतता
- rapidness (rapid + ness) — swiftnessफुर्ती
- rapt (rapt) — absorbed, carried awayतल्लीन, मग्न
- raptly (rapt + ly) — with complete attentionपूरे ध्यान से
- raptness (rapt + ness) — deep absorptionगहरी तल्लीनता
- rapture (rapt + ure) — great joy that seizes the mindपरमानंद, हर्षोन्माद
- enrapture (en + rapture) — to fill with great delightआनंद से भर देना
- rapacious (rap + acious) — greedy and grabbingलालची, लूटने वाला
- rapaciously (rapacious + ly) — in a greedy wayलालच से
- rapacity (rap + acity) — extreme greedअत्यधिक लालच
- rapine (rap + ine) — forceful taking, plunderलूटपाट