inceptive

Meanings

Adjective

  • Beginning; of or relating to inception.
  • Aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning.

Noun

  • An inceptive construction.

Origin

  • Borrowed from French inceptif, from the Latin inceptīvus, from incipiō.

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