inceptus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“begin”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] ==== Participle ==== inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle begun, undertaken, partially accomplished, attempted; have or having been begun, etc. ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== English: incept Romansh: antschet === Etymology 2 === From incipiō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== inceptus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] inceptūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus] ==== Noun ==== inceptus m (genitive inceptūs); fourth declension (abstract) the action of beginning, starting (concrete) a beginning, start Synonym: inceptum Antonym: exitus ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “inceptus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “inceptus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “inceptus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “inceptus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "inceptus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “inceptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. II. p. 771.