initus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of ineō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus] ==== Participle ==== initus (feminine inita, neuter initum); first/second-declension participle entered begun ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From ineō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== initus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus] initūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus] ==== Noun ==== initus m (genitive initūs); fourth declension an entering, entrance approach, arrival, advent beginning, commencement, initiation ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “ĭnĭtus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “initusm -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ĭnĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “initus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ĭnĭtus / ĭnĭtŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.