coepissent

coepissent is a Latin form of coepio, meaning “begin”. It is the 3rd person plural pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.5.1: Cum iam amplius horis sex continenter pugnaretur, ac non solum vires sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent, resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum,

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.