Latin

Verb

suscipiō ‎(present infinitive suscipere, perfect active suscēpī, supine susceptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I take up, acknowledge, undertake
2. I catch, receive
3. I bear, beget

Inflection

Related terms

• susceptiō
• susceptum

Descendants

• English: susceptible

References

• suscipio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• suscipio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suscipio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accept as one's own child; to make oneself responsible for its nurture and education: tollere or suscipere liberos
    
  • to incur danger, risk: pericula subire, adire, suscipere
    
  • to make a person one's enemy: inimicitias cum aliquo suscipere
    
  • to lose one's labour: inanem laborem suscipere
    
  • to undertake an affair: negotium suscipere
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    
  • to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
    
  • to commit a crime and so make oneself liable to the consequences of it: scelus (in se) concipere, suscipere
    
  • to embrace a strange religion: religionem externam suscipere
    
  • to make a vow: vota facere, nuncupare, suscipere, concipere
    
  • to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles: causam popularem suscipere or defendere
    
  • to undertake a case: causam suscipere
    
  • (ambiguous) a religious war: bellum pro religionibus susceptum
    
• suscipio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016