# ineo
## Latin
### Etymology

From in- (“in, into”) +‎ eō (“to go”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈi.ne.oː/, [ˈɪneoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.ne.o/, [ˈiːneo]

### Verb

ineō (present infinitive inīre, perfect active iniī or inīvī, supine initum); irregular conjugation, irregular
* to enter, go into [with accusative or in (+ accusative)]
    Synonyms: introeo, subeō, intro, succēdō, accēdō, ingredior, invado, immigrō
    Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō
* to begin [with accusative ‘an activity, enterprise, business’]
    Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, mōlior, exorior
    Antonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, cessō
    inire consilium ― to take a resolution, to determine to perform a plan
    inire societatem cum aliquo ― to enter into an alliance with someone
    inire rationem ― to count/ to form a plan, take an initiative
    inire numerum ― to enter upon a calculation
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.24:vix ratio iniri posseta plan could hardly be formed
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.9:si quid etiam de sua salute ab Aeduis iniretur consiliif any plot against his own safety should have been begun by the Aedui
** (transitive, by extension, followed by the accusative) to take up (an office, position)
    magistratum inire ― to take up the magistracy
    imperium inire ― to come to power
*** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.
* to have sexual intercourse [with accusative ‘with someone’]

#### Conjugation

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to iniī, but occasionally appears as inīvī.

#### Derived terms

* initium
* initiō
* Inuus

### References

* “ineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ineo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically) to gain a person's esteem, friendship: gratiam inire ab aliquoor apud aliquem to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut) to associate with some one: societatem inire, facere cum aliquo to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere to gain some one's favour: gratiam inire apud aliquem, ab aliquo (cf. sect. V. 12) to enter into office: inire magistratum to begin a war with some one: bellum cum aliquo inire to engage: proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)
* ineo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication