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- Latinconceptus
- Middle Frenchconcept
- English todayconcept
Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Words from the same roots
Latinconceptus all →
conceptualconcetto
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.