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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From initium (“beginning”) + -ō.
Verb
initiō (present infinitive initiāre, perfect active initiāvī, supine initiātum); first conjugation
- to begin, originate
- Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, ineō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, exorior, mōlior
- Antonyms: dēsistō, subsistō, cessō
- to initiate, consecrate
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
initiō
- dative/ablative singular of initium
References
- “initio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “initio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "initio", 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)
- initio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be initiated into the mysteries of a cult: sacris initiari (Quintil. 12. 10. 14)
- (ambiguous) the elements: elementa; initia or principia rerum
- (ambiguous) at the beginning of the year: initio anni, ineunte anno