initium

From ineō (“go in, make a start”), from in (“in, into”) + eō (“go”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈni.ti.um/, [ɪˈnɪ.ti.ũ]

initium n (genitive initiī); second declension

1. beginning
2. (pl.) rites, mysteries

Second declension.

• initiō

• Catalan: inici
• Galician: inzo, inicio (borrowing)
• Italian: inizio
• Portuguese: início
• Scottish Gaelic: inid
• Spanish: inicio

• initium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• initium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• initium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
    
  • to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
    
  • to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
    
  • to begin to speak: initium dicendi facere
    
  • to commence hostilities: bellum incipere, belli initium facere (B. G. 7. 1. 5)
    
  • (ambiguous) the elements: elementa; initia or principia rerum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of the year: initio anni, ineunte anno