 The equivalent term Frauenraub (literally "wife robbery"), originally from German, is used in English in the field of art history.Bride kidnapping is distinguished from "raptio" in that the former is the abduction of one woman by one man (and his friends and relatives), whereas the latter is the abduction of many women by groups of men, possibly in a time of war.The English word "rape" retains the Latin meaning in literary language, but the meaning is obscured by the more current meaning of "sexual violation".