COMMENCE Copy link • COMMENCEv. INTR., To take its commencement, incipere [Vid: To BEGIN]: the combat commences, proelium committitur: hostes acie concurrunt: the war commences, bellum suscipitur: daybreak commences, dies appetit: lucescit: dilucescit: illucescit: evening commences, advesperascit: night commences, nox appetit: TR., incipere: coepisse. inchoare: ordiri: exordiri [SYN. in BEGIN]: to commence speaking, initium dicendi facere, sumere; exordior dicere: to commence after anybody, aliquem excipere: he commenced (his speech) thus, ingressus est sic loqui: Vid: BEGIN.