Verb form of "inception" [closed]

Just out of curiosity, what is the verb form of inception? My (uneducated) guesses are incept and inceive.

Solution 1:

There is none in current use! The verb with the same meaning is "to begin".

From here:

The Latin verbs concipere (http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/conceive) and percipere (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perceive) migrated to English. Incipere (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inception) did not.

Very possibly, the anglo-saxon "beginnan" was found to be sufficient and no latin-based borrowing was needed.

"Incept" now primarily means "to take in; ingest". However, according to Merriam-Webster, it has an archaic meaning (now out of use) of "to begin".