Incipient (adj)
in-sip-ee-ent
Beginning to happen or develop.
Late 16th century (as a noun denoting a beginner): from Latin incipient- ‘undertaking, beginning’, from the verb incipere, from in- ‘into, towards’ + capere ‘take’.
Example sentences
“They were more like friends that incipient lovers.”
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