incipience

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incipientia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

incipience (countable and uncountable, plural incipiences)

1. A beginning, or first stage.

Related terms

• incipient

Translations

beginning or first stage

• Bulgarian: начало (bg) n (načalo), започване (bg) n (započvane)
• Slovak: počiatok

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incipience”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.