conceited
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conceited¹
- /kənˈsiː.tɪd/
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
substratebor.?
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Archaic Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
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Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Old French concevoirbor.
Middle English conceyven
Middle English conceyte
English conceit
Old English -ed
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English conceited
From conceit + -ed.
adjective more conceited · conceiteder · most conceited · conceitedest
- Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain. If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.
- Endowed with fancy or imagination. AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
- Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. A conceited chair to sleep in.
conceited²
- /kənˈsiː.tɪd/
Where it comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
verb
- simple past and past participle of conceit
