incipient

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

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

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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.

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

incipient (countable and uncountable, plural incipients)

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

• (beginner): beginner, inceptor

• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• incipiently
• incipit

• Picentini

incipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of incipiō