English → Latin
“conceive” in Latin
comprehendōto lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip; to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold ocomplectorto embrace or hug; to encircle, surround, encompass; to comprehend, understandmēnsmind; intellect, reason; reasoning, judgementcapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containpercipiōto seize or take on (entirely); assume; earn; occupy, keep (i.e. maintain control); to perceive, observe, notice; to feeassequorto follow someone in order to come up to him; pursue, go after; to overtake, come up with, reach, catch up; to gain, obtdēpingōto depict, to paint, to portray, to represent by painting; to paint, to colourfingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangeeffingōto form, fashion; to represent, portray, express, depict; imitate, copy; to wipe out, wipe cleanpingōto decorate, adorn, embellish; to paint, tint or colour; to portray
The English word conceive itself goes back to Latin concipiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
conceive
Comprehend: comprehendere, complecti with or without animo or mente. cogitatione comprehendere: capere (mente): mente concipere, percipere: cognoscere et percipere: assequi: intelligere. To have conceived, comprehensum, perceptum, cognitum comprehensumque habere; animo comprehensum tenere; ratione et intelligentia tenere [SYN. in COMPREHEND]: what can not be conceived, quod nullius mens aut cogitatio capere potest.
To form an idea, or to represent to one’s mind: aliquid cogitare; aliquid cogitatione fingere or depingere (to form an image of anything in one’s mind): fingere: effingere (to form): pingere: depingere: cogitare: animo cogitare: cogitatione sibi fingere: animo sibi effingere: animo concipere (to represent to one’s mind): animo praecipere (to conceive before or previously; to anticipate): opinione praecipere (to presume anything):
To become pregnant, concipere. gravidam or praegnantem fieri.
To form in the mind, concipere: to conceive hopes, spem concipere: to conceive suspicion from anything, suspicionem ex re ducere, trahere; incidit mihi suspicio ex re: to conceive a suspicion that etc., venit alicui in suspicionem, with accusative and infinitive: to conceive hatred against anybody, odium in aliquem habere or gerere: odio in aliquem ferri: odium in aliquem concepisse or erga aliquem suscepisse: tenet aliquem odium alicujus rei. qs alicujus rei odium habet: I have conceived a disgust against anything, fastidire aliquid; satietas alicujus rei me cepit.
To plot: machinari (to design): excogitate (to contrive): comminisci (to invent): coquere: concoquere (to brood, or to hatch).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for conceive?
- The usual Latin words for “conceive” are comprehendō, complector, mēns; also capiō, percipiō, assequor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.