concepción

See also: concepcion, Concepcion, and Concepción

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Archaic 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 conceptiōnemlbor.

Spanish concepción

Learned borrowing from Latin conceptiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konθebˈθjon/ [kõn̟.θeβ̞ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /konsebˈsjon/ [kõn.seβ̞ˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: con‧cep‧ción

Noun

concepción f (plural concepciones)

1. (biology) conception (fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote)
2. conception (image, idea, or notion formed in the mind)

Derived terms

• anticoncepción
• Inmaculada Concepción

Related terms

• concebir
• conceptivo
• concepto

Descendants

• → Tagalog: konsepsiyon

Further reading

• “concepción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025