-ception

Created on Nov 25, 2013

Suffix
1. Definition: Attached to nouns, refers to the attached word as having multiple layers of itself.
Word formation type: Clipping
Citation: For Thanksgiving dinner we made a chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. That's some birdception right there.
Citation date: Nov. 25, 2013
Source of citation: Internet, July 2010
Explanation: -ception is a shortened form of the word Inception, a 2010 movie that featured multi-layered dreams. The word is a misinterpretation, as "inception" didn't refer to the multiple layers. The suffix -ception became back-formed to refer to something that has multiple layers. Inception "beginning, starting" from Middle French incepcion, from Latin inceptionem "a beginning, undertaking", noun form of incipere "begin, take in hand", from in- "in, on' + cipere, form of capere "take, seize".
Created on Nov 25, 2013