coepi

== Latin == === Etymology === From earlier Old Latin coëpiō, coapiō, with a trisyllabic stem, from co- +‎ apiō (literally “to lay hold of something on different sides, to lay hold of”). Late Latin coepiō, with a disyllabic stem, is a back-formation. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoe̯.piː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.pi] === Verb === coepī (perfect infinitive coepisse, supine coeptum); third conjugation, no present stem to have begun or started (uncommon) to begin ==== Usage notes ==== A defective verb in Classical Latin, with incipiō (“to begin”) generally used as a substitute for the present tense. Fully-conjugated coepiō (“to begin”) is attested Late Latin. Occasionally, the perfect forms are used with a present-tense meaning; compare nōvī and ōdī. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== recoepī ==== Related terms ==== coeptō ==== Descendants ==== Late Latin: coepiō === Verb === coepī first-person singular perfect active indicative of coepiō === References === “coepi”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “apīscor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 47