initiālis, e, adj. id., initial, incipient, original (post-class.). Adj.: elementorum origo initialis, App. M. 4, p. 156, 9: saeculorum progenies, id. ib. 11, p. 259: controversiae status, Aggen. ap. Front. de Limit. p. 63 Goes.

— Subst.: initiāles, ium, m. plur., those who first assembled together in a collegium, Inscr. ap. Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 12.