Where does “wrapt” come from?

Wrapt is an archaic past tense and past participle of rap, deriving from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio meaning to seize or snatch, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₁rep-.

wrapt (English): Misspelling of rapt; simple past tense and past...

Definitions

  1. Misspelling of rapt; simple past tense and past...

Ancestry of “wrapt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishraptSnatched, taken away; abducted; Lifted up into...
2Latinraptussnatched, having been snatched, grabbed, having...
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “wrapt”

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