Conceiver

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who creates or originates an idea or plan ; a woman who becomes pregnant with a child
2. Someone who invents or devises a concept or scheme ; a female who begins carrying an unborn baby
3. An individual who imagines or develops an original notion ; a woman who conceives a fetus in her womb

Etymology: The word "conceiver" is a straightforward formation: the verb "conceive" with the agent suffix "-er", meaning one who conceives. The verb itself arrived in English from Old French "concevoir", which came from Latin "concipere" ("to take in, receive, become pregnant"), so its earliest senses were physical before they became mental. The idea of forming a notion in the mind came later and was then carried over to the person who forms it. The suffix has a longer pedigree than the verb. The "-er" ending descends from the Latin "-arius", a suffix that marked a person connected with a trade or role, which passed into Old French as "-ier" and then into Middle English as "-ere" and "-er". Old English had its own version of this ending, so English speakers were attaching it to native words long before the French-derived verb reached them.

Synonyms: creator, originator

Antonyms: destroyer, abolisher