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inceptus
inceptus
Latin
Participle
inceptus m (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second declension
- begun, having been begun
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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
- Romansh: 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inceptus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
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(ambiguous) to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
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(ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare