From en.wiktionary.org:
[commencé]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm] (also as contracted [enm], [enm]), from [en], from [en],
formed from [en] + [la] (whence English [en]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To begin , start .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1601 | author=w:William Shakespeare | title=w:The Phoenix and the Turtle | url=http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/poems/poem_view.php?WorkID=phoenixturtle
|passage=Here the anthem doth COMMENCE:}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1770 | author=w:Oliver Goldsmith | chapter=w:The Deserted Village | title=The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith | location=London | publisher=W. Griffin | year_published=1775 | page=164 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897243.0001.000
|passage=His heaven COMMENCES ere the world be past!}}
1. * [chapter=4]
2. * [chapter=4]
3. [en] To begin , start .
4. * [en]
5. [en] To begin to be, or to act as.
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1743 | author= [Robert Drury (sailor)] | title=The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar | url=https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog | page=126 | location=London
|passage=[...] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn,
_&c_. and thus accouter’d I COMMENC’D Soldier.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1825 | author=w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge | title=Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character | location=London | publisher=Taylor & Hessey, Prudential Aphorisms, Aphorism 15 | page=48 | url=https://archive.org/details/aidstoreflection03cole
|passage=When we are wearied of the trouble of prosecuting crimes at the bar,
we COMMENCE judges ourselves [...]}}
1. [en] To take a degree at a university .
2. * [chapter=The Seventh Century]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=George John Gray | title=Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1586-1609 | page=272
|passage=[...] 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
- See Thesaurus:begin .
**** Antonyms
- [to begin]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[begin, start]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [transitive] [be] , [be] ; [intransitive] [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [transitive] [uk] , [uk] ; [intransitive] [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
** Louisiana Creole
*** Etymology
From [lou], compare [ht].
*** Verb
[lou]
1. to begin , commence
*** References
- Alcée Fortier, _Louisiana Folktales_