conceive

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From Middle English conceiven, borrowed from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to take”), from con- (“together”) + capiō (“to take”). Compare deceive, perceive, receive.

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(transitive) To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
- 1606, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare, II-4
  We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- (Can we date this quote by Gibbon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:
  Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
(transitive) To understand (someone).
- (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  I conceive you.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
(intransitive or transitive) To become pregnant (with).
Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
- Bible, Luke i. 36
  She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

to develop an idea

to understand someone

to become pregnant

Arabic: حَبِلَ (ḥabila)
Armenian: հղիանալ (hy) (hġianal)
Bulgarian: забременя́вам impf (zabremenjávam), забремене́я pf (zabremenéja)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 懷孕／怀孕 (zh) (huáiyùn), 怀孕 (zh) (huáiyùn), 懷／怀 (zh) (huái), 怀 (zh) (huái), 有喜 (zh) (yǒu xǐ) (euphemism and colloquial)
Czech: počít (cs), otěhotnět (cs) pf
Dutch: zwanger worden
Egyptian:

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Esperanto: gravediĝi (intransitive), koncipi (transitive)
Estonian: rasestuma
Finnish: tulla raskaaksi
French: concevoir (fr), tomber enceinte (fr)
German: empfangen (de), schwanger werden
Greek: συλλαμβάνω (el) (syllamváno), μένω έγκυος (méno égkyos)
Hungarian: teherbe esik
Italian: concepire (it)
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Japanese: 妊娠する (ja) (にんしんする, ninshin suru), 孕む (はらむ, haramu)
Korean: 임신하다 (ko) (imsinhada)
Maori: whakaira tangata, tō, tinaku
Mwali Comorian: urenga mimba
Ngazidja Comorian: urenga hamili
Norwegian:
Bokmål: unnfange
Portuguese: conceber (pt)
Russian: бере́менеть (ru) impf (berémenetʹ), забере́менеть (ru) pf (zaberémenetʹ) (intransitive), зача́ть (ru) pf (začátʹ) (transitive)
Serbo-Croatian: začeti (sh)
Slovene: zanositi
Spanish: concebir (es)
Tagalog: maglihi
Turkish: gebe kalmak (tr), hamile kalmak