inchoare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inchoo, inchoare, inchoavi, inchoatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
begin/start (work); set going, establish; draft/sketch/outline; enter upon;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...hanc epistulam liberare: 'molestum est semper vitam inchoare'; aut si hoc modo magis sensus potest exprimi, 'male vivunt..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...annum differre sana consilia et inde uelle uitam inchoare quo pauci perduxerunt? IV. Potentissimis et in altum sublatis..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...secedet, cum generabit ipse aliquid atque componet, tum inchoare haec studia vel non vacabit vel non libebit. XIII..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...expectantes, insita mortalibus natura, propere sequi quae piget inchoare. sed ipsis legionibus inerat diversitas animorum: primani quintanique turbidi..."