coeptum
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Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]coeptum
- inflection of coeptus:
Noun
[edit]coeptum
Noun
[edit]coeptum n (genitive coeptī); second declension
- Something started, a work begun, an undertaking, enterprise, beginning.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.2–4:
- […] dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
ad mea perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!- O gods, favor my undertakings (for you have changed them too), and lead my uninterrupted song down from the first origin of the world to my times!
- […] dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | coeptum | coepta |
Genitive | coeptī | coeptōrum |
Dative | coeptō | coeptīs |
Accusative | coeptum | coepta |
Ablative | coeptō | coeptīs |
Vocative | coeptum | coepta |
References
[edit]- “coeptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coeptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coeptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) swords must now decide the day: res gladiis geri coepta est
- (ambiguous) swords must now decide the day: res gladiis geri coepta est