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
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..."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..."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..."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..."