commence
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English commencen, comencen (also as contracted comsen, cumsen), from Anglo-Norman comencer, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, formed from Latin com- + initiō (whence English initiate).
Inflected forms:
form: commences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To begin, start.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Here the anthem doth commence:
His heaven commences ere the world be past!
He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then—still minus his trowsers—he hunted up his boots.
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
gloss: To begin, start.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The speeches commenced three days of workshops, seminars, and cultural activities.
gloss: To begin or start.
pos: verb
tags: Appalachia
intransitive
examples: At dawn we'll commence to drive.
gloss: To begin to be, or to act as.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.
When we are wearied of the trouble of prosecuting crimes at the bar, we commence judges ourselves […]
gloss: To take a degree at a university.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dated
intransitive
examples: […] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]
[…] was admitted a minor fellow of his college 4 Oct. 1591, a major fellow 11 March 1591-2, and commenced M.A. in 1592.
Synonyms: begin
Antonyms: stop
end
cease
finish
conclude
complete
Related words: commencement
Derived words: commenceable
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սկսել
roman: sksel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: başlamaq
lang: Belarusian
word: пачына́ць
roman: pačynácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пача́ць
roman: pačácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пачына́цца
roman: pačynácca
lang: Belarusian
word: пача́цца
roman: pačácca
lang: Bulgarian
word: запо́чвам
roman: zapóčvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: запо́чна
roman: zapóčna
lang: Bulgarian
word: наче́вам
roman: načévam
lang: Bulgarian
word: поде́мам
roman: podémam
lang: Catalan
word: començar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 開始 /开始
roman: kāishǐ
lang: Danish
word: begynde
lang: Dutch
word: aanvangen
lang: Esperanto
word: komenciĝi
lang: Finnish
word: aloittaa
lang: French
word: commencer
lang: Galician
word: comezar
lang: Georgian
word: დაწყება
roman: dac̣q̇eba
lang: German
word: anfangen
lang: German
word: beginnen
lang: Greek
word: αρχίζω
roman: archízo
lang: Haitian Creole
word: komanse
lang: Hungarian
word: elkezd
lang: Interlingua
word: comenciar
lang: Italian
word: cominciare
lang: Japanese
word: 始まる
roman: hajimaru
lang: Japanese
word: 始める
roman: hajimeru
lang: Norwegian
word: begynne
lang: Norwegian
word: påbegynne
lang: Persian
word: آغاز کردن
roman: Aagaaz Kardan
lang: Polish
word: poczać
lang: Polish
word: poczynać
lang: Portuguese
word: começar
lang: Romanian
word: începe
lang: Russian
word: начина́ть
roman: načinátʹ
lang: Russian
word: начина́ться
roman: načinátʹsja
lang: Slovene
word: pričeti
lang: Slovene
word: pričenjati
lang: Spanish
word: comenzar
lang: Spanish
word: empezar
lang: Spanish
word: principiar
lang: Spanish
word: incoar
lang: Spanish
word: encentar
lang: Spanish
word: decentar
lang: Swedish
word: börja
lang: Swedish
word: begynna
lang: Tagalog
word: magsimula
lang: Turkish
word: başlamak
lang: Turkish
word: başlatmak
lang: Turkish
word: açmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: почина́ти
roman: počynáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: поча́ти
roman: počáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: почина́тися
roman: počynátysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: поча́тися
roman: počátysja