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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•cep•tive (in sep′tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - beginning;
initial. - Grammar(of a derived verb, or of an aspect in verb inflection) expressing the beginning of the action indicated by the underlying verb, as Latin verbs in -scō, which generally have inceptive force, as calēscō "become or begin to be hot'' from caleō "be hot.''
n. [Gram.] - Grammarthe inceptive aspect.
- Grammara verb in this aspect.
- Late Latin inceptīvus. See incept, -ive
- 1605–15
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged inchoative, embryonic, nascent.
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