incipient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

   After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.

2. 2
   adj

   only partly in existence

3. 3
   noun

   A beginner.

4. 4
   noun

   A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Etymology

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