593: -ceive and -ception Jul 23, 2016

In romance languages, it is possible to create multiple verbs from a single root by adding prepositions as prefixes. Words such as 'receive', 'deceive' 'conceive' and 'perceive' all come from the same Latin word, 'capere' meaning 'to take', but with different prepositions. The nounal form of all of those words ends in '-ception'. Excluding all of the newly created words to describe the metaphysical based off of the Christopher Nolan movie, Inception, there are a slew of words that only exist in this nounal form, including 'contraception' and 'inception', which all come from the participial form of 'capere' which is 'captus'.