iniciati

A register word, not a synonym. Komenci at rank 146 is the everyday verb for beginning anything at all: a meal, a book, a sentence, a war. Iniciati is the formal one, and it carries an extra idea that komenci does not - that somebody took the first step and got a thing moving that then continued without them. You komencas your dinner. You iniciatas a campaign, a reform, a subscription, a project. Swap them and nothing is ungrammatical; you simply sound as though you have wandered into the wrong document.

The noun is the word you will meet first. Iniciato is an initiative, and it turns up constantly in the movement's own prose: laŭ la iniciato de la loka klubo, on the initiative of the local club. Iniciatinto is the person who started it, iniciatemo the quality of getting things going, and propra iniciato is doing something off your own bat. In an Esperanto association's annual report you will read iniciato more often than the verb.

The neighbours, sorted by what they actually claim.Komenci is neutral beginning. Fondi is founding something that then exists as an institution - a club, a school, a journal. Organizi is arranging the parts once it exists. Proponi is putting the idea forward without necessarily doing anything. Iniciati sits between proposing and founding: the thing is now moving and you are the reason.

One root that looks like this one and is not. Esperanto keeps inici as a separate verb for initiating somebody into a mystery, a secret society or a craft - the ceremonial sense. Iniciati projekton starts a project; inici novulon lets a newcomer in on the secret. Two roots, one Latin ancestor, and no page here for the second because it is rare outside anthropology. The -i on the end of iniciati is nothing but the infinitive: iniciat- is one borrowed root, and there is no ini- and no -ciat- to cut it into.