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coepit

coepit is a Latin form of coepio, meaning “begin”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative or 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 723 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.20.1: Diviciacus multis cum lacrimis Caesarem complexus obsecrare coepit ne quid gravius in fratrem statueret:

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.5.1: Vidistine quemquam M. Regulo timidiorem humiliorem post Domitiani mortem? Sub quo non minora flagitia commiserat quam sub Nerone sed tectiora. Coepit vereri ne sibi irascerer, nec fallebatur: irascebar.

Plautus, Casina 3.5.651: tua áncilla hoc pácto exordíri coépit,

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.