different between inaugurate vs began

English

Etymology

French inaugurer (“to invest”), from Latin inaugur? (“approve on the basis of omens”), from in (“in”) + augur (“an augur”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /??n?????e?t/, /??n???j??e?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /??n??????t/, /??n???j???t/

Verb

inaugurate (third-person singular simple present inaugurates, present participle inaugurating, simple past and past participle inaugurated)

1. (transitive) To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
2. (transitive) To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
   • 2008, The Economist, Solar energy: the power of concentration

     […] Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

inaugurate (not comparable)

1. Invested with office; inaugurated.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 17 p. 262[1]:

     The reliques of her Crowne (by him first placed here)

     The seat on which her Kings inaugurated were.

Further reading

• inaugurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inaugurate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• inaugurate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

inaugurate

1. second-person plural present of inaugurare
2. second-person plural imperative of inaugurare
3. feminine plural of inaugurato, past participle of inaugurare

Latin

Participle

inaugur?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inaugur?tus

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• (General American, US) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: be?gan

Verb

began

1. simple past tense of begin
2. (obsolete) past participle of begin

Derived terms

• beganst

Anagrams

• Bange, abeng, benga

Middle Dutch

Verb

began

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of beginnen

Old English

Etymology

From be- +? g?n. Cognate with Old High German big?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be????n/

Verb

beg?n

1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into
2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect

3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun

4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• forebeg?n
• misbeg?n
• unbeg?n

Descendants

• Middle English: bigon, begon
  • English: bego

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “beg?n”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “beg?n”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.