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Concept

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means an abstract idea or general notion formed in the mind
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Stage 1 of 2
concipere
Latin · ancient
"to take together, to conceive"
to take together, to conceive, from com- (together) and capere (to take)
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Stage 2 of 2
concept
English · 1550s
"an abstract idea or general notion"
settled as the English word for an abstract idea
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