incipient

Etymology

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

adj

  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.
    Aislyn presses back against her house’s front door, panting a little with an incipient panic attack. 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 405

noun

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

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