initialis

== Latin == === Etymology === From initium (“a beginning”) +‎ -ālis, from ineō (“go in, make a start”), from in (“in, into”) + eō (“go”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪ.nɪ.tiˈaː.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.nit.t͡siˈaː.lis] === Adjective === initiālis (neuter initiāle); third-declension two-termination adjective initial, first, incipient ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== initiāles ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “initialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “initialis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.