incipient
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/
- Rhymes: -ɪpiənt
- Hyphenation: in‧cip‧i‧ent
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: insipient
Adjective edit
incipient (not comparable)
- 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 edit
Do not confuse incipient ("starting", "beginning") with insipient ("foolish", "stupid").
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Translations edit
beginning, starting
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Noun edit
incipient (plural incipients)
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Latin edit
Verb edit
incipient
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin incipiens or Italian incipiente.
Adjective edit
incipient m or n (feminine singular incipientă, masculine plural incipienți, feminine and neuter plural incipiente)
Declension edit
Declension of incipient
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |