conceptus
English
Etymology
From Latin cōncipiō (“to take hold of, to receive”), from Latin capiō (“to capture”).
Noun
conceptus (plural conceptuses or concepti or conceptūs)
- The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy.
References
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fifth Edition.
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of concipiō (“I receive, catch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkep.tus/, [kɔŋˈkɛpt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃep.tus/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛpt̪us]
Participle
conceptus (feminine concepta, neuter conceptum); first/second-declension participle
- received, caught
- derived from
- contained, held
- adopted
- conceived
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | conceptus | concepta | conceptum | conceptī | conceptae | concepta | |
| Genitive | conceptī | conceptae | conceptī | conceptōrum | conceptārum | conceptōrum | |
| Dative | conceptō | conceptō | conceptīs | ||||
| Accusative | conceptum | conceptam | conceptum | conceptōs | conceptās | concepta | |
| Ablative | conceptō | conceptā | conceptō | conceptīs | |||
| Vocative | concepte | concepta | conceptum | conceptī | conceptae | concepta | |
Etymology 2
From concipiō (“I receive, catch”) + -tus (forms nouns from verbs, usually signifying the result of an action).
Noun
conceptus m (genitive conceptūs); fourth declension
- conception
- embryo, fetus
- cistern
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | conceptus | conceptūs |
| Genitive | conceptūs | conceptuum |
| Dative | conceptuī | conceptibus |
| Accusative | conceptum | conceptūs |
| Ablative | conceptū | conceptibus |
| Vocative | conceptus | conceptūs |
Related terms
- conceptiō
Descendants
- Catalan: concepte
- Friulian: concet
- Italian: concetto
- → English: concetto
- → French: concetto
- → Middle French: concept
- French: concept
- → English: concept
- → Dutch: concept
- Neapolitan: concetto
- Piedmontese: concet
- Polish: koncept
- Portuguese: conceito
- Romanian: concept
- Spanish: concepto
References
- “conceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to blot out a reproach: maculam (conceptam) delere, eluere
- to blot out a reproach: maculam (conceptam) delere, eluere
- conceptus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016