inceptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“begin”).

Participle

inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle

1. begun, undertaken, partially accomplished, attempted; have or having been begun, etc.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.175:

     nec piget inceptī

     Nor is it displeasing [to me] having been undertaken.
     Or, in more natural English:
     Nor do I resent the undertaking.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.316:

     per cōnūbia nostra, per inceptōs hymenaeōs

     by our loving union, by the marriage rites [which we] have begun

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	inceptus	incepta	inceptum		inceptī	inceptae	incepta
genitive	inceptī	inceptae	inceptī		inceptōrum	inceptārum	inceptōrum
dative	inceptō	inceptae	inceptō		inceptīs
accusative	inceptum	inceptam	inceptum		inceptōs	inceptās	incepta
ablative	inceptō	inceptā	inceptō		inceptīs
vocative	incepte	incepta	inceptum		inceptī	inceptae	incepta

Derived terms

• inceptiō
• inceptivus

Descendants

• English: incept
• Romansch: antschet

References

• “inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inceptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.
  • (ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere