Captés

Captés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb capturer, meaning those things that have been seized, captured, or recorded. In French, captés can function as an adjective or as part of compound verb tenses. The feminine forms are captée (singular) and captées (plural), while the masculine singular is capté. The participle agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies or with the direct object when used in certain tenses.

Etymology and morphology: capturer derives from the stem capt- from the Latin capere, meaning to seize or take. The form captés follows the regular pattern for past participles ending in -é, with the final -s marking the plural in masculine agreement. When the adjective or participle refers to feminine nouns, the endings are captée (singular) and captées (plural).

Usage: In everyday French, captés appears frequently in contexts involving recording, detection, or seizure. Examples include: les images captées par la caméra (the images captured by the camera), les données captées par le capteur (the data captured by the sensor). In a passive or quasi-passive sense, one may say: les informations ont été captées par le dispositif. The participle agrees with the preceding direct object in compound tenses: les objets que nous avons captés (objects we captured). In written French, captés can also describe things that have been recorded or perceived, such as capturing moments, signals, or broadcasts.

See also: capturer, capture (nom et verbe), captation, captor. These terms relate to the act of taking, recording, or seizing information or material.