conatûs

Borrowed from Latin cōnātūs, the nominative plural form of cōnātus.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōnāʹto͞os, IPA^(key): /kəʊˈneɪtuːs/

conatûs pl

1. plural of conatus
   • 1648 August, John Pell, “[Letter f]or the right Honourable Sr Charles Cavendysshe Knight &c // At my Lord Marquis of Newcastles lodgings in Roterdam” in John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: the mental world of an early modern mathematician (2005, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, eds. Noel Malcolm & Jacqueline Stedall, page 512

     So that it seemes an infinite businesse to [>scan all] his conatûs Cyclometricas.⁹ [>For By that time that] we have done [>wth] this, We are in danger to have as much more to examine.

     ⁹ ‘Attempts to measure the circle’.

• co-aunts, toucans, uncoats