incipient

English

WOTD – 1 November 2007

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/
• Rhymes: -ɪpiənt
• Hyphenation: in‧cip‧i‧ent

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Adjective

incipient (not comparable)

1. In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

   After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

   Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.

Synonyms

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

Translations

beginning, starting

• Bulgarian: начален (bg) m (načalen), зараждащ се (zaraždašt se)
• Catalan: incipient
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初期的 (chūqí de)

• Dutch: beginnend (nl)
• Finnish: alkava (fi), orastava (fi)
• French: incipient (fr) m, incipiente (fr) f, commençant (fr)
• German: einsetzend (de)
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• Japanese: 初期の (しょきの, shoki no)
• Latin: incipiēns
• Polish: początkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: incipiente (pt)
• Russian: начина́ющийся (ru) (načinájuščijsja), появля́ющийся (ru) (pojavljájuščijsja), зарожда́ющийся (ru) (zaroždájuščijsja), нача́льный (ru) (načálʹnyj)
• Slovak: prvotný, počiatočný
• Spanish: incipiente (es)
• Turkish: başlangıç (tr) aşamasında, halinde, başlayan (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

Anagrams

• Picentini

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) incipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of incipiō