in·cip·i·ent

[in-sip-ee-uhnt]
adjective
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin incipient- (stem of incipiēns, present participle of incipere to take in hand, begin), equivalent to in- in-2 + -cipi- (combining form of capi- take) + -ent- -ent

in·cip·i·ent·ly, adverb

incipient, insipid, insipient.


beginning, nascent, developing.
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incipient (ɪnˈsɪpɪənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
just starting to be or happen; beginning
 
[C17: from Latin incipiēns, from incipere to begin, take in hand, from in-² + capere to take]
 
in'cipience
 
n
 
in'cipiency
 
n
 
in'cipiently
 
adv

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Word Origin & History

incipient
1669, from L. incipientem (nom. incipiens), prp. of incipere "begin, take up," from in- "on" + -cipere, comb. form of capere "to take" (see capable).
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Example sentences
He has dark eyes, incipient jowls, and a manner that can change in a moment
  from expansively genial to theatrically menacing.
It seems a world away from the incipient revolution proclaimed on the nightly
  news.
In the kernel of an idea lies that idea's incipient obsolescence.
The symptom in the true neuroses is frequently the nucleus and incipient stage
  of development of the psychoneurotic symptom.
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