initus, ūs, m. ineo, a coming in, entrance. Lit. An approach, arrival, advent: volucres te, diva, tuumque Significant initum, Lucr. 1, 13.
— A beginning, commencement: movendi, Lucr. 1, 383: motūs, id. 2, 269.
— Transf., approach (in mal. part.), Ov. F. 4, 94; Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 172: sues initum matutinum appetere, id. 10, 63, 83, § 181.