coeptorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coeptus, coepta, coeptum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
begun, started, commenced; undertaken;
gen. pl. (m.)gen. pl. (n.) - Entry →coepio, coepere, coepi, coeptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
begin, commence, initiate; set foot on; (usu. PERF PASS w/PASS INF; PRES early);
gen. pl. perf. pass. part.gen. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →coeptum, coepti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
undertaking (usu.pl.), enterprise, scheme; work begun/started/taken in hand;
gen. pl.
Examples
- P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nomine fingo. sacra Dionaeae matri divisque ferebam auspicibus coeptorum operum, superoque nitentem caelicolum regi mactabam in litore taurum..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...committebatur et parua momenta leuium certaminum ex tuto coeptorum, finitimo receptu, adsuefaciebant territum pristinis cladibus militem minus..."
