susceptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of suscipiō (“undertake; beget”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /susˈkep.tus/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈkɛpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suʃˈʃep.tus/, [suʃˈʃɛpt̪us]

Participle

susceptus (feminine suscepta, neuter susceptum); first/second-declension participle

1. taken up, having been taken up, acknowledged, having been acknowledged, undertaken, having been undertaken
2. caught, having been caught, received, having been received
3. borne, having been borne, begotten, having been begotten

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	susceptus	suscepta	susceptum		susceptī	susceptae	suscepta
genitive	susceptī	susceptae	susceptī		susceptōrum	susceptārum	susceptōrum
dative	susceptō	susceptae	susceptō		susceptīs
accusative	susceptum	susceptam	susceptum		susceptōs	susceptās	suscepta
ablative	susceptō	susceptā	susceptō		susceptīs
vocative	suscepte	suscepta	susceptum		susceptī	susceptae	suscepta

References

• “susceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• susceptus 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)
• susceptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
    
  • (ambiguous) a religious war: bellum pro religionibus susceptum