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
- L
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..." - P
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..." - G
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..."