initium

== Latin == === Etymology === From ineō (“go in, make a start”) +‎ -ium, the former from in (“in, into”) +‎ eō (“go”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪˈnɪ.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈnit.t͡si.um] === Noun === initium n (genitive initiī or initī); second declension beginning, start Synonyms: prīncipium, exordium, limen, orīgō, rudīmentum, prīmōrdium Antonym: fīnis a going in, entrance Synonyms: ingressus, limen, iānua, ingressiō, foris, porta, vestibulum Antonym: abitus (in the plural) rites, mysteries initiative, first move ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== initialis initiō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “initium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “initium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “initium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.