incipient

English

WOTD – 1 November 2007    

Etymology

From Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).

Pronunciation

• (RP, US) IPA: /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/

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  Rhymes: -ɪpiənt

Adjective

incipient (not comparable)

1. beginning, starting, coming into existence.

   After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

Synonyms

• (beginning): beginning, commencing, emerging, starting

Translations

beginning, starting

• Dutch: beginnend (nl)
• Finnish: alkava (fi), orastava (fi)
• French: incipient (fr) m, incipiente (fr) f; commençant (fr)
• German: einsetzend (de)
• Latin: incipiēns nominative, incipientis genitive

• Polish: początkowy m
• Portuguese: incipiente (pt)
• Spanish: incipiente (es)
• Turkish: başlangıç (tr) aşamasında/halinde, başlayan (tr) (medicine)

Noun

incipient (countable and uncountable; plural incipients)

1. (countable, obsolete) beginner
2. (uncountable, grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Synonyms

• (beginner): beginner, inceptor

Related terms

• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• incipiently
• incipit

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Latin

Verb

incipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of incipiō
   1. "they will begin"