incipient

(adj.) beginning; in the first stages

Waning classicism was contemporaneous with incipient romanticism, waning romanticism with incipient realism, etc., with each new literary movement overlapping its predecessor.

Related English words: incipience (the very beginning), incipiency (incipience)

Latin root words: incipio, incipere, incepi, inceptus - to take to, begin; capio, capere, cepi, captus - to take; to seize, capture

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