coeptus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of coepī (“to have begun”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] ==== Participle ==== coeptus (feminine coepta, neuter coeptum); first/second-declension participle having been begun ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From coepī + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== coeptus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] coeptūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] ==== Noun ==== coeptus m (genitive coeptūs); fourth declension beginning, undertaking, enterprise See also: coeptum ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “coeptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “coeptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “coeptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “coeptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “coeptus / coeptŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.