The root <em>cap</em> is a variant of the primary root word <em>cept</em> that means to take or to receive. <em>Cap</em> only means to take or to seize, and such concept is present in words such as the following:
To captivate: To seize someone with charm or to attract and hold the interest and attention of someone.
Captive: One who has been seized and enslaved.
Captor: One who seizes and enslaves.
To capture: To seize or to get possession of something or someone, usually a criminal.
Capacity: The ability of something, like a box, to take a number of things or persons into it.
remote means having very little connection with or relationship to. so the thing is remote meaning its never had any actual connection to anything making it fearful.
