incipio
Contents
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
in + capiō (“I seize upon”, “I lay hold of”)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
incipiō (present infinitive incipere, perfect active incēpī, supine inceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I begin
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Aromanian: ntsep, ntseapiri
- Romanian: începe, începere
- Romansch: entschaiver, entscheiver, antschever
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- incipio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incipio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
- to commence hostilities: bellum incipere, belli initium facere (B. G. 7. 1. 5)
- to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
- incipio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016