conatus

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnātus.

Pronunciation

singular

• enPR: kōnāʹtəs
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪ.təs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.təs/

plural

• enPR: kōnāʹto͞os
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪtuːs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.tus/

Noun

conatus (plural conatuses or conatus)

1. An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
2. A force or impulse; a nisus.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [E]ach part so moved does by that motion exert a conatus of protruding and displacing all the adjacent Particles.

Related terms

• conation
• conative

Further reading

• conatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• co-aunts, toucans, uncoats

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koːˈnaː.tus/, [koːˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈna.tus/, [koˈnäːt̪us]

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Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of cōnor (“try, attempt”).

Participle

cōnātus (feminine cōnāta, neuter cōnātum); first/second-declension participle

1. tried, attempted, having tried.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cōnātus	cōnāta	cōnātum		cōnātī	cōnātae	cōnāta
Genitive	cōnātī	cōnātae	cōnātī		cōnātōrum	cōnātārum	cōnātōrum
Dative	cōnātō		cōnātō		cōnātīs
Accusative	cōnātum	cōnātam	cōnātum		cōnātōs	cōnātās	cōnāta
Ablative	cōnātō	cōnātā	cōnātō		cōnātīs
Vocative	cōnāte	cōnāta	cōnātum		cōnātī	cōnātae	cōnāta

Etymology 2

From cōnor (“try, attempt”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

cōnātus m (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension

1. attempt, effort, exertion, struggle

   Synonyms: studium, opus, opera, labor, cūra, intēnsiō, mōlīmen, mōlēs, pulvis

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnātus	cōnātūs
Genitive	cōnātūs	cōnātuum
Dative	cōnātuī	cōnātibus
Accusative	cōnātum	cōnātūs
Ablative	cōnātū	cōnātibus
Vocative	cōnātus	cōnātūs

Descendants

• English: conatus
• Italian: conato
• Spanish: conato

References

• “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    
  • to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
    
• conatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016