incipient
adjective /ɪnˈsɪpiənt/
/ɪnˈsɪpiənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)- just beginning
- signs of incipient unrest
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a beginner): from Latin incipient- ‘undertaking, beginning’, from the verb incipere, from in- ‘into, towards’ + capere ‘take’.