conatus
See also: conatûs
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- singular
- enPR: kōnāʹtəs
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- plural
- enPR: kōnāʹto͞os
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Noun
conatus (plural conatus or conatûs)
- An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
- A force or impulse; a nisus.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- [E]ach part so moved does by that motion exert a conatus of protruding and displacing all the adjacent Particles.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
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Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koːˈnaː.tus/, [koːˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈna.tus/, [koˈnäːt̪us]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Etymology 1
Perfect active participle of cōnor (“try, attempt”).
Participle
cōnātus (feminine cōnāta, neuter cōnātum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cōnātus | cōnāta | cōnātum | cōnātī | cōnātae | cōnāta | |
Genitive | cōnātī | cōnātae | cōnātī | cōnātōrum | cōnātārum | cōnātōrum | |
Dative | cōnātō | cōnātō | cōnātīs | ||||
Accusative | cōnātum | cōnātam | cōnātum | cōnātōs | cōnātās | cōnāta | |
Ablative | cōnātō | cōnātā | cōnātō | cōnātīs | |||
Vocative | cōnāte | cōnāta | cōnātum | cōnātī | cōnātae | cōnāta |
Etymology 2
From cōnor (“try, attempt”) + -tus.
Noun
cōnātus m (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnātus | cōnātūs |
Genitive | cōnātūs | cōnātuum |
Dative | cōnātuī | cōnātibus |
Accusative | cōnātum | cōnātūs |
Ablative | cōnātū | cōnātibus |
Vocative | cōnātus | cōnātūs |
Descendants
References
- “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
- to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
- to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
- conatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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