conatus

From Latin cōnātus.

• (singular):
  • enPR: kōnāʹtəs
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪ.təs/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.təs/

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• (plural):
  • enPR: kōnāʹto͞os
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪtuːs/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.tus/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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.

• conation
• conative

• conatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• uncoats, Canutos, scanout, co-aunts, toucans

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koːˈnaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈnaː.t̪us]

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

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

1. tried, attempted, having tried.

First/second-declension adjective.

From cōnor (“try, attempt”) +‎ -tus.

cōnātus m (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension

1. attempt, effort, exertion, struggle

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

Fourth-declension noun.

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

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016