incohate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incoho, incohare, incohavi, incohatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
begin/start (work); set going, establish; draft/sketch/outline; enter upon;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...inter se nec satis in uicem speculi nitent, incohant tantum imagines nec exprimunt et ob ipsam uiciniam turbant..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...Ultra hos Chatti initium sedis ab Hercynio saltu incohant, non ita effusis ac palustribus locis, ut ceterae civitates..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...liquet mihi futurum ut peracto quod proxime promisisti, incohes aliud. Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem..."