conatus

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English

Etymology

From Latin cōnātus.

Pronunciation

singular
plural

Noun

conatus (plural conatuses or conatus)

  1. An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
  2. A force or impulse; a nisus.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      [E]ach part so moved does by that motion exert a conatus of protruding and displacing all the adjacent Particles.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of cōnor (“try, attempt”).

Participle

cōnātus (feminine cōnāta, neuter cōnātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. tried, attempted, having tried.
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cōnātus cōnāta cōnātum cōnātī cōnātae cōnāta
Genitive cōnātī cōnātae cōnātī cōnātōrum cōnātārum cōnātōrum
Dative cōnātō cōnātō cōnātīs
Accusative cōnātum cōnātam cōnātum cōnātōs cōnātās cōnāta
Ablative cōnātō cōnātā cōnātō cōnātīs
Vocative cōnāte cōnāta cōnātum cōnātī cōnātae cōnāta

Etymology 2

From cōnor (“try, attempt”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

cōnātus m (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension

  1. attempt, effort, exertion, struggle
    Synonyms: studium, opus, opera, labor, cūra, intēnsiō, mōlīmen, mōlēs, pulvis
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnātus cōnātūs
Genitive cōnātūs cōnātuum
Dative cōnātuī cōnātibus
Accusative cōnātum cōnātūs
Ablative cōnātū cōnātibus
Vocative cōnātus cōnātūs
Descendants
  • English: conatus
  • Italian: conato
  • Spanish: conato

References

  • “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • conatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    • to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
  • conatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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