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coepi
coepi
Latin
Verb
coepī (perfect infinitive coepisse, perfect participle coeptum, defective)
- I began.
Usage notes
Defective verb, no present tense conjugations. For a full set of forms, incipio is often used in its place.
Inflection
| Conjugation of coepi (third conjugation, active only, perfect forms as present, pluperfect as imperfect, future perfect as future) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | coepī | coepistī | coepit | coepimus | coepistis | coepērunt, coepēre |
| imperfect | coeperam | coeperās | coeperat | coeperāmus | coeperātis | coeperant | |
| future | coeperō | coeperis | coeperit | coeperimus | coeperitis | coeperint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | coeperim | coeperīs | coeperit | coeperīmus | coeperītis | coeperint |
| imperfect | coepissem | coepissēs | coepisset | coepissēmus | coepissētis | coepissent | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | coepisse | — | coeptūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | — | coeptus | coeptūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| — | — | — | — | coeptum | coeptū | ||
Related terms
References
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coepi”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- he fell ill: aegrotare coepit
- a man's credit begins to go down: fides aliquem deficere coepit
- he fell ill: aegrotare coepit