incipient

English

WOTD – 1 November 2007

Etymology

Borrowed fromLatinincipiēns,present participle ofincipiō(“begin”).

Pronunciation

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

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• Homophone:insipient

Adjective

incipient(notcomparable)

1. In aninitialstage;beginning,starting,coming intoexistence.

   After 500 years,incipienttowns appeared.

   Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher inincipientstage fire fighting.

   • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon],chapter XIII, inFrancesca Carrara.[…],volume I, London:Richard Bentley,[…],(successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page141:

     How many more places might have been distributed by herincipientmajesty 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, page115:

     It may even be that because ofincipientsatiation, 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, page405:

     Aislyn presses back against her house’s front door, panting a little with anincipientpanic attack.

Usage notes

Do not confuseincipient( "starting", "beginning" ) withinsipient( "foolish", "stupid" ).

Synonyms

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

Translations

beginning, starting

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

  Mandarin:Sơ kỳĐích(chūqí de)

• Dutch:beginnend(nl)
• Finnish:alkava(fi),orastava(fi)
• French:incipient(fr),commençant(fr)
• German:einsetzend(de)
• Japanese:Sơ kỳの(しょきの, shoki no)
• Kazakh:алғашқы(alğaşqy)
• 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(pluralincipients)

1. (obsolete)Abeginner.
2. (grammar)A verb tense of theHebrewlanguage.

Synonyms

• (beginner):beginner,inceptor

Related terms

• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• incipiently
• incipit

Anagrams

• Picentini

Latin

Verb

incipient

1. third-personpluralfutureactiveindicativeofincipiō

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinincipiensorItalianincipiente.

Adjective

incipientmorn(feminine singularincipientă,masculine pluralincipienți,feminine and neuter pluralincipiente)

1. incipient

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	incipient		incipientă		incipienți	incipiente
	definite	incipientul		incipienta		incipienții	incipientele
genitive- dative	indefinite	incipient		incipiente		incipienți	incipiente
	definite	incipientului		incipientei		incipienților	incipientelor