inceptus

Perfect passive participle of incipiō (“begin”).

inceptus (feminine incepta, neuter inceptum); first/second-declension participle

1. begun, undertaken, partially accomplished, attempted; have or having been begun, etc.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.175:

     nec piget inceptī

     Nor is it displeasing [to me] having been undertaken.
     Or, in more natural English:
     Nor do I resent the undertaking.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.316:

     per cōnūbia nostra, per inceptōs hymenaeōs

     by our loving union, by the marriage rites [which we] have begun

First/second-declension adjective.

• inceptiō
• inceptivus

• English: incept
• Romansch: antschet

• “inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inceptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• inceptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to persevere in one's resolve: in incepto or conatu perstare
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere