inceptus

Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“begin”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]

inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle

1. begun, undertaken, partially accomplished, attempted; have or having been begun, etc.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.175:

     nec piget inceptī

     Nor is it displeasing [to me] having been undertaken.
     Or, in more natural English:
     Nor do I resent the undertaking.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.316:

     per cōnūbia nostra, per inceptōs hymenaeōs

     by our loving union, by the marriage rites [which we] have begun

First/second-declension adjective.

• English: incept
• Romansh: antschet

From incipiō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

• inceptus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]
• inceptūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɛp.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]

inceptus m (genitive inceptūs); fourth declension

1. (abstract) the action of beginning, starting
2. (concrete) a beginning, start

   Synonym: inceptum

   Antonym: exitus

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Praefatio:

     […] ; inde tibi tuaeque rei publicae quod [e documentis] imitere capias, inde foedum inceptu foedum exitu quod vites.

     From these that would honor yourself and the state you may select, others avoid that be base in their inception, shameful in their outcome.

Fourth-declension noun.

• “inceptus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inceptus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “inceptus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inceptus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "inceptus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “inceptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
    
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. II. p. 771.