incohatus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of incohō (begin, commence).

Pronunciation

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Participle

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incohātus (feminine incohāta, neuter incohātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. just begun, unfinished, having been commenced (but not completed)
  2. incomplete, imperfect
    Synonyms: imperfectus, īnfectus
    Antonyms: complētus, absolūtus, perfectus, factus, dēfūnctus

Declension

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Descendants

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  • English: inchoate

References

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  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • vague, undeveloped ideas: intellegentiae adumbratae or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59)