Where does “conceited” come from?

Conceited comes from English conceit, from Old English -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Latin concipio meaning to take together, from Latin con- and Proto-Indo-European keh₂p- meaning to seize.

conceited (English): Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's...

Definitions

  1. Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's...

Ancestry of “conceited”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “conceited”

Every word from Old English -ed →Every word from English -ed →Every word from Middle English -ed →