initus Latin · revision 34614

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la eō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪ.nɪ.tʊs], [ˈɪ.nɪ.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiː.ni.tus], [ˈiː.ni.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''initus''' ''m'' (genitive initūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ineō|-tus|t1=to go in, enter]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) an action noun of the fourth declension.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb is a compound of [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|eō#1|t=to go]],^(Wiktionary) which goes back to [[ine-pro|*h₁ei-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the arrival of the goddess, which the birds announce,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of the beginning of motion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its senses are “entry, approach” and “beginning”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid and Pliny the Elder use it of the mounting or covering of a female animal: Pliny says that a horse cannot bear fifteen coverings in the same year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Gellius quotes it in a figurative sense, of entering the feelings.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of an arrival and of the start of motion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of mating.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the covering of animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius quotes it in a figurative sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|entry|alt=Entry]], [[m|en|approach]], arrival.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|beginning|alt=Beginning]], [[m|en|commencement]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The covering or [[m|en|mount|alt=mounting]] of a female animal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The same form is the perfect participle of [[ineō]], “entered upon, begun”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}