coeptus

Perfect passive participle of coepī (“to have begun”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]

coeptus (feminine coepta, neuter coeptum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been begun

First/second-declension adjective.

From coepī + -tus (forming action nouns).

• coeptus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]
• coeptūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoe̯p.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛp.tus]

coeptus m (genitive coeptūs); fourth declension

1. beginning, undertaking, enterprise

   See also: coeptum

Fourth-declension noun.

• “coeptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coeptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coeptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coeptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coeptus / coeptŭs”, 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