Definitions for incipits

incipits in·ci·pit

Spelling: [in-si-pit; Latin ing-ki-pit]
IPA: /ˈɪn sɪ pɪt; Latin ˈɪŋ kɪ pɪt/

Incipits is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in incipits (ciiinpst).

Definitions for incipits

noun

  1. the introductory words or opening phrases in the text of a medieval manuscript or an early printed book.
  2. Music. the first words of a chanted liturgical text, as that of a Gregorian chant or certain medieval motets.

Origin of incipits

1895-1900; Latin: (here) begins, 3rd singular present indicative of incipere

Examples for incipits

The work begins "incipit Liber Radulfi laudunensis de abaco."

The second contains forty-one chapters: incipit accessus ad tractatum de corpore Christi.

The title runs thus: incipit liber qui vocatur Speculum Xpristiani.

I am read by journalists, by my fellow-novelists, and by boys; with these, incipit et explicit my vogue.

incipit libellus de ludo Scaccorum, et de dictis factisque nobilium virorum, philosophorum et antiquorum.

incipit epistola sancti Hieronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie libris.

Begins: incipit prohemium de proprietatibus rerum fratris bartholomei anglici de ordine fratrum minorum.

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, incipit Vita Nova.

She got up early the next morning, and wrote in her diary, "incipit vita nova!"

incipit tamen plebs paulatim illorum ignaviam et tyrannidem verbo Dei agnoscere.

Word Value for incipits
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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