Translation
concept
Word origin
From Latin conceptus, 'a thing grasped', from concipere, con- 'together' plus capere 'to take'. That seam is Latin history, not Esperanto grammar: kon- is not an Esperanto prefix and cepto is not an Esperanto root, so koncept- is a single indivisible root here.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- conceptus
- English cognates
- concept, conceive, capture
Examples
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The teacher explained the concept with a simple example.
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Time is a difficult concept for children.
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The book puts forward a new concept of the mind.
Do not try to take apart. The Esperanto prefix for togetherness is -, not kon-, and there is no root cept- waiting behind it. Latin did the assembling two thousand years ago and Esperanto borrowed the finished product.
Against its neighbours: an ideo is any thought that arrives, a teorio is a worked-out explanation, and a is the abstract category itself - the thing you would have to difini before you could argue about it.
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