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Latin
Participle
coeptum
- inflection of coeptus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Noun
coeptum
- accusative singular of coeptus
Noun
coeptum n (genitive coeptī); second declension
- Something started, a work begun, an undertaking, enterprise, beginning.
- Synonyms: commissum, facinus, gestum, āctiō, factum, rēs, inceptum
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1.2–4:
- dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
ad mea perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!- O gods, favor my undertakings (for you have changed them too), and lead my uninterrupted song down from the first origin of the world to my times!
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “coeptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coeptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coeptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) swords must now decide the day: res gladiis geri coepta est