inceptive

adj
/ɪnˈsɛptɪv/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French inceptif, from the Latin inceptīvus, from incipiō (“to begin”).

  1. derived from inceptīvus
  2. borrowed from inceptif

Definitions

  1. Beginning

    Beginning; of or relating to inception.

  2. Aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning.

    • The inceptive aspect is often translated into English as "to start [doing something]".
  3. An inceptive construction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inceptive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA