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concetto

/kənˈt͡ʃɛtəʊ/

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Borrowed from Italian concetto, from Latin conceptus. See conceit and concept, which are doublets.

noun concettos · concetti

Affected wit; a witty turn of phrase; a conceit. Tasso in particular, Mirollo notes, treated the concetto "as the equivalent in a lyric poem of plot in longer works." Pellegrino, similarly, and with reference to Tasso, says that concetti "are the soul and the form of a composition" […]
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@misc{concetto_2026,
  title = {concetto},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/concetto},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}