inchoactive

Adjective

inchoative (not comparable)

1. 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, […]1648, Walter Montagu, “The One and Twentieth Treatise. Of the Preheminences of a True Contemplative Life. §. I. Contemplation Defined, and Some Excellencies thereof Discoursed.”, in Miscellanea...
2. 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.1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 12
3. 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).

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