"principiate" meaning in All languages combined

See principiate on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /pɹɪnˈsɪpieɪt/
Etymology: From Latin prī̆ncipiātus, past participle of prī̆ncipiō, from Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”). With use as noun, compare Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”). By surface analysis, principia + -ate. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|prī̆ncipiātus}} Latin prī̆ncipiātus, {{der|en|la|prī̆ncipium|t=beginning, origin; foundation, principle}} Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”), {{cog|la|prī̆ncipiātum|t=derivative of a first principle}} Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”), {{surf|en|principia|-ate}} By surface analysis, principia + -ate Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} principiate (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete) Having a beginning; of or constituting a beginning. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-principiate-en-adj-cMcbTTCy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ate Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 6 29 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate: 53 14 33

Noun [English]

IPA: /pɹɪnˈsɪpieɪt/ Forms: principiates [plural]
Etymology: From Latin prī̆ncipiātus, past participle of prī̆ncipiō, from Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”). With use as noun, compare Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”). By surface analysis, principia + -ate. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|prī̆ncipiātus}} Latin prī̆ncipiātus, {{der|en|la|prī̆ncipium|t=beginning, origin; foundation, principle}} Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”), {{cog|la|prī̆ncipiātum|t=derivative of a first principle}} Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”), {{surf|en|principia|-ate}} By surface analysis, principia + -ate Head templates: {{en-noun}} principiate (plural principiates)
  1. The product of a principle.
    Sense id: en-principiate-en-noun-1s9xt99J

Verb [English]

IPA: /pɹɪnˈsɪpieɪt/ Forms: principiates [present, singular, third-person], principiating [participle, present], principiated [participle, past], principiated [past]
Etymology: From Latin prī̆ncipiātus, past participle of prī̆ncipiō, from Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”). With use as noun, compare Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”). By surface analysis, principia + -ate. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|prī̆ncipiātus}} Latin prī̆ncipiātus, {{der|en|la|prī̆ncipium|t=beginning, origin; foundation, principle}} Latin prī̆ncipium (“beginning, origin; foundation, principle”), {{cog|la|prī̆ncipiātum|t=derivative of a first principle}} Latin prī̆ncipiātum (“derivative of a first principle”), {{surf|en|principia|-ate}} By surface analysis, principia + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} principiate (third-person singular simple present principiates, present participle principiating, simple past and past participle principiated)
  1. (transitive) To begin; to initiate. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-principiate-en-verb-Hb45TYI~

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} principiate
  1. inflection of principiare:
    second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person, subjunctive Form of: principiare
    Sense id: en-principiate-it-verb-aUbs2R67 Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 23 4 7 47 12 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 3 5 57 9 4 Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 63 28 9
  2. inflection of principiare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person Form of: principiare
    Sense id: en-principiate-it-verb-9RR2LeKM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} principiate f pl
  1. feminine plural of principiato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: principiato
    Sense id: en-principiate-it-verb-lU4b1wd7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} principiate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of principiar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: principiar
    Sense id: en-principiate-es-verb-hat8mg6t Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by [Nathaniel Tucker], “As the Love Is, Such Is the Wisdom, and Consequently Such Is the Man”, in The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. […], London: […] W. Chalklen, […], →OCLC, part V, paragraph 369, pages 350–351:",
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          "text": "[W]e are at a loſs for a ſcientificall account even of our Senſes, the moſt knowable of our facultyes. Our eyes, that ſee other things, ſee not themſelves: And thoſe principiate foundations of knowledge are themſelvs unknown.",
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          "text": "Of Subſtances ſome are Principles, ſome Principiates. By Principles, I mean ſubſtances that are cauſes of other things, but are themſelves uncauſed. By Principiates (give me leave to make an Engliſh word of one not very good Latin) I mean ſubſtances that are cauſed, or compoſed of Principles. Principles make, Principiates are made to be.",
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          "ref": "1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by [Nathaniel Tucker], “As the Love Is, Such Is the Wisdom, and Consequently Such Is the Man”, in The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. […], London: […] W. Chalklen, […], →OCLC, part V, paragraph 369, pages 350–351:",
          "text": "From what hath been ſaid above, it is evident, why all Things of the Body are Principiates, that is, Contextures conſiſting of Fibres from their Principles, which are Receptacles of Love and Wiſdom, and that ſuch as the Principles are, ſuch muſt alſo the Principiates be, wherefore whitherſoever the Principles tend, the Principiates follow, they cannot be ſeparated.",
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          "ref": "1654, Walter Charleton, “Their Assertors Subterfuge, that Eternity Is Coexistent to Time; Also Unintelligible”, in Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, […], part I, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Thomas Heath, […], →OCLC, book I, chapter VII (Of Time and Eternity), section III, page 81:",
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          "text": "[W]e are at a loſs for a ſcientificall account even of our Senſes, the moſt knowable of our facultyes. Our eyes, that ſee other things, ſee not themſelves: And thoſe principiate foundations of knowledge are themſelvs unknown.",
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