Latin

Verb

ineō ‎(present infinitive inīre, perfect active iniī, supine initum); irregular conjugation

1. I enter, go into.
2. I begin (a certain activity, enterprise, business).
   1. (transitive, by extension, followed by the accusative) I take up (an office, position).

      magistratum inire‎ ― to take up the magistracy

      imperium inire‎ ― to come to power

      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

        Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.

        When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

3. I have intercourse.

Inflection

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to iniī, but occasionally appears as inīvī.

Derived terms

• initium
• initiō

Descendants

• English: initial

References

• ineo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ineo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ineo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    
  • to gain a person's esteem, friendship: gratiam inire ab aliquoor apud aliquem
    
  • to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
    
  • to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • to associate with some one: societatem inire, facere cum aliquo
    
  • to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere
    
  • to gain some one's favour: gratiam inire apud aliquem, ab aliquo (cf. sect. V. 12)
    
  • to enter into office: inire magistratum
    
  • to begin a war with some one: bellum cum aliquo inire
    
  • to engage: proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)