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incipient (adj.)
1660s, from Latin
incipientem
(nominative
incipiens
), present participle of
incipere
"begin, take up," from
in-
"into, in, on, upon" (see
in-
(2)) +
-cipere
, comb. form of
capere
"to take" (see
capable
).