conception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
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Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin conceptiōlbor.
Old French conceptionbor.
Middle English concepcioun
English conception
From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive. Equivalent to conceive + -tion.
Base: conceive
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: conceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of conceiving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being conceived; the beginning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt
Their angry ſeedes at his conception:
For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race,
Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride,
He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
gloss: The start of pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view.
gloss: An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
gloss: Something conceived or designed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The figure was placed on a low pedestal, sufficiently raised from the carpet on four plain wooden legs for all the space underneath to be clearly visible. The body was a squat, cross-legged conception, typical of an Indian deity […]
Antonyms: misconception
Related words: conceive
concept
contraception
Derived words: anticonception
artist's conception
conceptional
Conception Bay
conceptionism
conceptionist
control of conception
false conception
non-conception
nonconception
periconception
post conception
postconception
post-conception
preconception
prevenception
products of conception
reconception
self-conception
superconception
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