Definition of Inchoatives

1. inchoative [n] - See also: inchoative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inchoatives

inchoactive
inchoactives
inchoate
inchoated
inchoatedness
inchoately
inchoateness
inchoatenesses
inchoates
inchoating
inchoation
inchoations
inchoative
inchoative aspect
inchoatively
inchoatives (current term)
inchpin
inchpins
inchwide
inchworm
inchworms
incicurable
incide
incidence
incidence angle
incidence density
incidence function
incidence functions
incidence matrix
incidence rate

Literary usage of Inchoatives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Latin Language by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1872)
"... that is, verbal or nominal inchoatives. Tho first have no other perfect than that of the simple verb; * According to a passage in Gellius, vi., 15, ..."

2. A School Grammar of the Latin Language by Karl Gottlob Zumpt, Charles Anthon, Leonhard Schmitz (1859)
"THE inchoatives in sco are partly formed from verbs (chiefly of the second conjugation), and partly from nouns (substantives or adjectives), ..."

3. A Grammar of the Latin Language: For the Use of Colleges and Seminaries by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1829)
"The inchoatives in sco are partly formed from verbs (chiefly of the second conjugation), ... Few of the verbal inchoatives have the supine of the root. (1. ..."

4. A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language; with Perpetual Exercises in by George J. Adler (1858)
"Inchoative verbs end in «со, and arc formed either from nouns or adjectives, or from other verbs. The verbs from which inchoatives are formed are commonly ..."

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