inceptus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of incipiō (begin).

Participle

inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle

  1. begun, undertaken, partially accomplished, attempted; have or having been begun, etc.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.175:
      nec piget inceptī
      Nor is it displeasing having been undertaken.
      Or, in more natural English:
      Nor do I resent the undertaking.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.316:
      per cōnūbia nostra, per inceptōs hymenaeōs
      by our loving union, by the marriage rites have begun

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative inceptus incepta inceptum inceptī inceptae incepta
Genitive inceptī inceptae inceptī inceptōrum inceptārum inceptōrum
Dative inceptō inceptō inceptīs
Accusative inceptum inceptam inceptum inceptōs inceptās incepta
Ablative inceptō inceptā inceptō inceptīs
Vocative incepte incepta inceptum inceptī inceptae incepta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: incept
  • Romansch: antschet

References

  • inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inceptus 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)
  • inceptus 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