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Yet in Robert Cowdrey’s Table of Hard Words (the first English Dictionary of 1604) we find only: "Concept. Conceiueing in the womb" https://pt.scribd.com/document/165363694/A-Table-Alphabeticall-of-Hard-Usual-English-Words-R-Cawdrey However in Florio’s 1611 Italian English Dictionary (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/129.html) we find Concetto: conceived with child. also a conceit, or apprehension of the mind http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/129.html A few years later in “The New World of English Words” by Edward Philips around 1658 we find only conception as giving birth: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A54746.0001.001/1:10.3.7?rgn=div3;view=fulltext So, We must go forth to Nathan Bailey’s first comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English Language of 1763. : CONCEIT’ (Conceptum, L.): Imagination, Fancy, Opinion To CONCEIT’ (Concipere, L.): To imagine, to Fancy (…) To CONCEIVE (Concevoir, F. Concipere, L.): To imagine or apprehend, to form an Idea of; also to breed a Child in the Womb. (…) CONCEPT’: a set Form or Term used in a publik area (…) CONCEP’TION: a conceiving or breeding a Child; a comprehending;. F. of L. CONCEP’TION (in Logick): is the simple Apprehension, Perception or Idea, which we have, without proceeding to affirm or deny any Thing. Bailey, Nathan, An Universal Etymological Dictionary; … London, 1763 …twentieth edition, price six shillings. I like this one: “without proceeding to affirm or deny any Thing". And, of course, the introduction of imagination in the process. But what I find really determinant to our area is “to form an Idea”. best, E. Eduardo Corte-Real PhD Arch. Associate Professor Professor Associado com Agregação [log in to unmask] Av. Dom Carlos I, nº4, 1200-649 Lisboa, Portugal T: +351 213 939 600 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------