Although they don't look like relatives, "anticipate" and "catch" share the same Latin root: "capere," meaning "to take." Latin speakers added the prefix "ante-" to a form of "capere" to make "anticipatus" which English speakers adopted as "anticipate." A form of "capere" passed into Anglo-French as "cacher" which English speakers adopted as "catch." In addition to "anticipate" and "catch," "capere" is also at the root of a large family of words, including "accept," "cable," "capable," "captive," "deceive," "except," "participate," "prince," and "recover."