Masculine
Meaning

  1. (masculine) concept
  2. (masculine) opinion
  3. (masculine) idea
  4. (masculine, rhetoric) in Italian comedy (commedia dell'arte), stock punch line learned by the performers for use in this improvisational form of theater
  5. (masculine) conceit (work full of orotund phrases and pompous concetti, affected wit)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
con‧cèt‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/konˈt͡ʃɛt.to/
Etymology

From Latin conceptus (“received, caught; derived from; contained, held; adopted; conceived”). It was also originally the past participle of concepire.

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