ineo

From Proto-Italic *eneō. By surface analysis, in- (“in, into”) +‎ eō (“to go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.ne.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ne.o]

ineō (present infinitive inīre, perfect active iniī or inīvī, supine initum); irregular conjugation

1. to enter, go into [with accusative or in (+ accusative)]

   Synonyms: introeo, subeō, intro, succēdō, accēdō, ingredior, invado, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

2. to begin [with accusative ‘an activity, enterprise, business’]

   Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, mōlior, exorior

   Antonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, cessō

   inire consilium ― to take a resolution, to determine to perform a plan

   inire societatem cum aliquo ― to enter into an alliance with someone

   inire rationem ― to count/ to form a plan, take an initiative

   inire numerum ― to enter upon a calculation

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.24:

     vix ratio iniri posset

     a plan could hardly be formed

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.9:

     si quid etiam de sua salute ab Aeduis iniretur consili

     if any plot against his own safety should have been begun by the Aedui

   1. (transitive, by extension, followed by the accusative) to take up (an office, position)

      magistratum inire ― to take up the magistracy

      imperium inire ― to come to power

      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

        Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.

        When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

3. to have sexual intercourse [with accusative ‘with someone’]

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to iniī, but occasionally appears as inīvī.

• initium
• initiō
• Inuus

• “ineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ineo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    
  • to gain a person's esteem, friendship: gratiam inire ab aliquoor apud aliquem
    
  • to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
    
  • to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • to associate with some one: societatem inire, facere cum aliquo
    
  • to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere
    
  • to gain some one's favour: gratiam inire apud aliquem, ab aliquo (cf. sect. V. 12)
    
  • to enter into office: inire magistratum
    
  • to begin a war with some one: bellum cum aliquo inire
    
  • to engage: proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)
    
• ineo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication