initus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]initus m (genitive initūs); fourth declension
- entrance (act of entering)
- approach, arrival, advent
- beginning, commencement, initiation
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.94:
- perque suōs initūs continet omne genus
- and through her initiations she maintains all species
(In this section of Book IV, Ovid links all living beings to Venus; her ‘‘initūs’’ in this context may be translated several ways. See also Venus (mythology).)
- and through her initiations she maintains all species
- perque suōs initūs continet omne genus
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | initus | initūs |
Genitive | initūs | inituum |
Dative | inituī | initibus |
Accusative | initum | initūs |
Ablative | initū | initibus |
Vocative | initus | initūs |
Etymology 2
[edit]Perfect passive participle of ineō.
Participle
[edit]initus (feminine inita, neuter initum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | initus | inita | initum | initī | initae | inita | |
Genitive | initī | initae | initī | initōrum | initārum | initōrum | |
Dative | initō | initō | initīs | ||||
Accusative | initum | initam | initum | initōs | initās | inita | |
Ablative | initō | initā | initō | initīs | |||
Vocative | inite | inita | initum | initī | initae | inita |
References
[edit]- “initus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “initus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- initus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- after mature deliberation: inita subductaque ratione
- to do something after careful calculation: inita subductaque ratione aliquid facere
- after mature deliberation: inita subductaque ratione
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- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
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- Latin perfect participles
- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook