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
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..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...committebatur et parua momenta leuium certaminum ex tuto coeptorum, finitimo receptu, adsuefaciebant territum pristinis cladibus militem minus..."
