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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• Homophone: insipient

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.

   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species necessarily attain the rank of species.

   • 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.

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

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

incipient (plural incipients)

1. (obsolete) A beginner.
2. (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

Borrowed from Latin incipiens or Italian incipiente.

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

1. incipient