incohatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of incohō (“begin, commence”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.koˈhaː.tus/, [ɪŋkoˈ(ɦ)äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.koˈa.tus/, [iŋkoˈäːt̪us]
Participle
incohātus (feminine incohāta, neuter incohātum); first/second-declension participle
- just begun, unfinished, having been commenced (but not completed)
- incomplete, imperfect
- Synonyms: imperfectus, īnfectus
- Antonyms: complētus, absolūtus, perfectus, factus, dēfūnctus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | incohātus | incohāta | incohātum | incohātī | incohātae | incohāta | |
| Genitive | incohātī | incohātae | incohātī | incohātōrum | incohātārum | incohātōrum | |
| Dative | incohātō | incohātō | incohātīs | ||||
| Accusative | incohātum | incohātam | incohātum | incohātōs | incohātās | incohāta | |
| Ablative | incohātō | incohātā | incohātō | incohātīs | |||
| Vocative | incohāte | incohāta | incohātum | incohātī | incohātae | incohāta | |
Descendants
- English: inchoate
References
- “incohatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incohatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- vague, undeveloped ideas: intellegentiae adumbratae or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59)
- vague, undeveloped ideas: intellegentiae adumbratae or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59)