coeperat

coeperat is a Latin form of coepio, meaning “begin”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.23: … solus, in convivio dominus, ac tum maxime cum accubante praetextato praetoris filio saltare in convivio nudus coeperat.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.449: Coeperat adventus causam, mandata referre

All forms of coepio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.