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Latin
Etymology
From initium (“a beginning”) + -ālis, from ineō (“go in, make a start”), from in (“in, into”) + eō (“go”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
initiālis (neuter initiāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- initial, first, incipient
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “initialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- initialis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.