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initium
initium
Latin
Noun
initium n (genitive initiī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | initium | initia |
genitive | initiī | initiōrum |
dative | initiō | initiīs |
accusative | initium | initia |
ablative | initiō | initiīs |
vocative | initium | initia |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- initium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- initium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “initium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
- to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
- to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
- to begin to speak: initium dicendi facere
- to commence hostilities: bellum incipere, belli initium facere (B. G. 7. 1. 5)
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(ambiguous) the elements: elementa; initia or principia rerum
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(ambiguous) at the beginning of the year: initio anni, ineunte anno
- to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re