inchoati
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;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...ista indicat". VII. Tum ille opicus verbis meis inchoatis et inconditis adductus virtutemque esse polypragmosynen ratus: "hortatur" inquit..."XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...omnem partem opus aequaliter crescit, nec quicquam ex inchoatis parum est quod non sua portione perfectum..."Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quod katortwma dicebas - contingitque sapienti soli, hoc autem inchoati cuiusdam officii est, non perfecti, quod cadere..."