The corpus record — Latin

inceptio

inceptio · f

a beginning

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What it meant

inceptĭo — Lewis & Short

inceptĭo, ōnis, f.incipio,

I a beginning, undertaking (rare but class.): tam praeclari operis, Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 119: patrociniorum, App. Mag. p. 317, 5.—Absol. (opp. depositio), Quint. 11, 3, 46.—

II Transf., enterprise, undertaking: inceptio est amentium, non amantium, Ter. And. 1, 3, 13.

Where it came from

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