inceptor

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin inceptor

Noun

inceptor (plural inceptors)

1. A beginner; one in the rudiments.

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2. (UK) One who is on the point of taking a Master of Arts degree at an English university.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inceptor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• entropic, pretonic

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Latin

Etymology

incipiō +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈkep.tor/, [ɪŋˈkɛpt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃep.tor/, [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛpt̪or]

Noun

inceptor m (genitive inceptōris); third declension

1. beginner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inceptor	inceptōrēs
Genitive	inceptōris	inceptōrum
Dative	inceptōrī	inceptōribus
Accusative	inceptōrem	inceptōrēs
Ablative	inceptōre	inceptōribus
Vocative	inceptor	inceptōrēs

Descendants

• English: inceptor

Verb

(deprecated template usage) inceptor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of inceptō

References

• “inceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.