incipient
adj.
5L incipiens, prp. of incipere, to begin, lit., take up < in3, in, on + capere, to take: see HAVE6 in the first stage of existence; just beginning to exist or to come to notice !an incipient illness"
in[cip$i[ence or in[cip$i[en[cy
n.
in[cip$i[ent[ly
adv.