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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la cōnor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [koːˈnaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈnaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnātus''' ''m'' (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|cōnor|t=to try, attempt]] with the noun suffix [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨cōnor⟩ from [[itc-pro|*kōnāje-|t=to attempt]]; a root ⟨*ḱōn-⟩ “ascent” is uncertain, and he compares [[grc|ἐγκονέω|tr=enkonéō|t=to be quick and active]] and [[grc|διάκονος|tr=diákonos|t=servant]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence is its first author,^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) whose ''Heauton timorumenos'' has a man who “will speak great nonsense with great effort”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an effort or attempt, including physical effort, and an instinctive impulse: Cicero reports that the Stoics define love as “an impulse to form a friendship arising from the appearance of beauty”.^(OLD 2012) It is also an attempted action or design, as Cicero's hidden plots revealed to the people, and an attempted blow.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “attempt”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin ''cōnātus'' also stands for [[cognātus]], “kinsman”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of great effort.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an impulse and of plots.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|effort]], exertion, [[m|en|attempt]]; physical effort.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An instinctive impulse.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An attempted action, design; an attempted blow.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnor]]

+ * [[cōnāmen]]

+ * [[en|conation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}