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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
inceptum n (genitive inceptī); second declension
- beginning
- attempt, enterprise
- Synonyms: commissum, facinus, gestum, coeptum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Participle
inceptum
- inflection of inceptus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Verb
inceptum
- accusative supine of incipiō
References
- “inceptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inceptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inceptum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- inceptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
- (ambiguous) to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere