initium

Latin

Etymology

From ineō (“go in, make a start”), from in (“in, into”) + eō (“go”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /iˈni.ti.um/, [ɪˈnɪ.ti.ũ]

Noun

initium n (genitive initiī); second declension

  1. beginning

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative initium initia
genitive initiī initiōrum
dative initiō initiīs
accusative initium initia
ablative initiō initiīs
vocative initium initia

Derived terms

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
    • to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
    • to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
    • to begin to speak: initium dicendi facere
    • to commence hostilities: bellum incipere, belli initium facere (B. G. 7. 1. 5)
    • (ambiguous) the elements: elementa; initia or principia rerum
    • (ambiguous) at the beginning of the year: initio anni, ineunte anno
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