suscipio

• succipiō

From sub- +‎ capiō (“seize”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /susˈki.pi.oː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈkɪpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suʃˈʃi.pi.o/, [suʃˈʃiːpio]

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

1. to take up, acknowledge
2. to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (esp. when done voluntarily and as a favor. Cf. recipiō)

   Synonyms: sumō, assumō, accipiō, induō, adhibeō, adoptō, ineō, inducō, aggredior, obeō

3. to catch, receive, support
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.391–392:

     [...] Suscipiunt famulae, conlāpsaque membra
     marmoreō referunt thalamō strātīsque repōnunt.

     [Dido’s] maids catch her [as she swoons], and bring back [their queen’s] limp body to her marble chamber and duly lay her on the bed.

4. (of feelings, experience, etc) to undergo, submit to, bear, accept, to be susceptible to

   Synonyms: sufferō, sustineō, subeō

5. to bear, beget

   Synonyms: prōcreō, gignō, genō, prōdō, ēnītor, cōnītor, pariō, ēdō, efficiō

   Antonym: necō

• susceptibilis
• susceptiō
• susceptum

• Old French: sosceivre
• Old Occitan: soisebre
• Romansch: tschütschaiver

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŭscĭpĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 467

• “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
• suscipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016