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Latin
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Etymology
From sub- + capiō (“seize”).
Pronunciation
Verb
suscipiō (present infinitive suscipere, perfect active suscēpī, supine susceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to take up, acknowledge
- to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (esp. when done voluntarily and as a favor. Cf. recipiō)
- Synonyms: sumō, assumō, accipiō, induō, adhibeō, adoptō, ineō, inducō, aggredior, obeō
- to catch, receive
- (of feelings, experience, etc) to undergo, submit to, bear, accept, to be susceptible to
- Synonyms: sufferō, sustineō, subeō
- to bear, beget
- Synonyms: prōcreō, gignō, genō, prōdō, ēnītor, cōnītor, pariō, ēdō, efficiō
- Antonym: necō
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Further reading
- “suscipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suscipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suscipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accept as one's own child; to make oneself responsible for its nurture and education: tollere or suscipere liberos
- to incur danger, risk: pericula subire, adire, suscipere
- to make a person one's enemy: inimicitias cum aliquo suscipere
- to lose one's labour: inanem laborem suscipere
- to undertake an affair: negotium suscipere
- to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
- to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
- to commit a crime and so make oneself liable to the consequences of it: scelus (in se) concipere, suscipere
- to embrace a strange religion: religionem externam suscipere
- to make a vow: vota facere, nuncupare, suscipere, concipere
- to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles: causam popularem suscipere or defendere
- to undertake a case: causam suscipere
- (ambiguous) a religious war: bellum pro religionibus susceptum
- suscipio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016