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Latin
Etymology
From con- + capio. Calque of Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sullambánō).
Pronunciation
Verb
concipiō (present infinitive concipere, perfect active concēpī, supine conceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to receive or catch, grasp
- Synonyms: habeō, teneo, apprehendō, comprehendō, dēprehendō, capesso, recipio, accipio
- to derive (from)
- to contain or hold
- Synonym: contineo
- to comprehend intellectually, think
- Synonyms: apprehendō, comprehendō, dēprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō
- Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō
- to adopt
- Synonyms: assumo, induco, adhibeo, suscipio, sumo, accipio
- to devise or conceive
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.485–486:
- cōnscia mēns ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intrā
pectora prō factō spemque metumque suō.- As the mind of each man is conscious , so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 31.
- to conceive, become pregnant
45 BCE,
Cicero,
De Natura Deorum 2.128:
- Nam primum aliae (bestiae) mares, aliae feminae sunt, quod perpetuitatis causa machinata natura est, deinde partes corporis et ad procreandum et ad concipiendum aptissimae, et in mari et in femina commiscendorum corporum mirae libidines;
- To begin with, some of them (animals) are of gender males, others females, the which is for nature's perpetuity wrought, whence of each their parts in procreation and conceiving be optimal, and so the wanton desires in male and female towards sexual union of their own body;
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References
- “concipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to incur ignominy: infamiam concipere, subire, sibi conflare
- to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo concipere aliquid
- to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
- to conceive an ideal: singularem quandam perfectionis imaginem animo concipere
- to conceive a hope: spem concipere animo
- to commit a crime and so make oneself liable to the consequences of it: scelus (in se) concipere, suscipere
- to make a vow: vota facere, nuncupare, suscipere, concipere