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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“begin”).
Participle
inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle
- 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.
Derived terms
Descendants
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