noun · neutersecond declension
coeptum
coeptum n (genitive coeptī)
Meaning
- neuteran undertaking, enterprise, beginning (something started, a work begun)
[…] dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa) adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
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!8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.2–4
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | coeptum | coepta |
| genitive | coeptī | coeptōrum |
| dative | coeptō | coeptīs |
| accusative | coeptum | coepta |
| ablative | coeptō | coeptīs |
| vocative | coeptum | coepta |
coeptum, i, v. coepio, I. B.
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
coeptum ī, n
coepio, a work begun, beginning, undertaking: nec taedia coepti Ulla mei capiam, O.: audax, L.: audacibus adnue coeptis, V.: temere coepta, L.: coeptis meis, O.: ne enuntiare coepta, L.