inchoative

adj

1. (not-comparable)Initial; as yet unformed; inchoate.

   “[T]he day-Star […] ſhall be riſen in our hearts; vvhereof theſe acts of our intellect ſeem to be ſome inchoative or imperfect rays, […]”

   “Our first Piece is of Winter, or late Autumn, 1771,—while the solution of the Polish Business is still in its inchoative stages; …”

2. (not-comparable)Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.

   “The inchoative (inceptive) aspect of a verb expresses the beginning of an action. Example: He is beginning to crawl.”

3. (not-comparable)In Catalan, being a member of a class of third-conjugation verbs (e.g. servir) in which a syllable -eix- (or otherwise depending on dialect), derived from the Latin inchoative but now without meaning, is inserted into certain conjugations (e.g. serveixo).

noun

1. An inchoative construction.