initus

Perfect passive participle of ineō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus]

initus (feminine inita, neuter initum); first/second-declension participle

1. entered
2. begun

First/second-declension adjective.

From ineō + -tus (forming action nouns).

• initus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus]
• initūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.nɪ.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ni.tus]

initus m (genitive initūs); fourth declension

1. an entering, entrance
2. approach, arrival, advent
3. beginning, commencement, initiation
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, 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).)

Fourth-declension noun.

• “ĭnĭtus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “initusm -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ĭnĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “initus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ĭnĭtus / ĭnĭtŭs”, 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