incipient

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. [], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, [], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 141:
      How many more places might have been distributed by her incipient majesty it is impossible to say, for the thread of her meditation was broken by the sudden termination of the path.
    • 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 115:
      It may even be that because of incipient satiation, the shares of the marginal dollar display consumption propensities that are the reverse of the ones exhibited by the average dollar.
    • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 405:
      Aislyn presses back against her house’s front door, panting a little with an incipient panic attack.

Usage notes

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Do not confuse incipient ("starting", "beginning") with insipient ("foolish", "stupid").

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Noun

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incipient (plural incipients)

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

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Latin

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Verb

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incipient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of incipiō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin incipiens or Italian incipiente.

Adjective

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incipient m or n (feminine singular incipientă, masculine plural incipienți, feminine and neuter plural incipiente)

  1. incipient

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