conatus

From Latin cōnātus.

singular

• enPR: kōnāʹtəs
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪ.təs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.təs/

plural

• enPR: kōnāʹto͞os
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪtuːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈneɪ.tus/

conatus (plural conatus or conatûs)

1. An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
2. A force or impulse; a nisus.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [E]ach part so moved does by that motion exert a conatus of protruding and displacing all the adjacent Particles.

• conation
• conative

• conatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• co-aunts, toucans, uncoats

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koːˈnaː.tus/, [koːˈnaː.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈna.tus/, [koˈnaː.tus]

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Perfect active participle of cōnor (“try, attempt”).

cōnātus m (feminine cōnāta, neuter cōnātum); first/second declension

1. tried, attempted, having tried.

First/second declension.

From cōnor (“try, attempt”) +‎ -tus.

cōnātus m (genitive cōnātūs); fourth declension

1. attempt, effort
2. exertion, struggle

Fourth declension.

• English: conatus
• Italian: conato

• conatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    
  • to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
    
• conatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016