different between incipient vs excipient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incipi?ns, present participle of incipi? (“begin”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?n?s?p.i.?nt/
• Rhymes: -?pi?nt
• Hyphenation: in?cip?i?ent

Adjective

incipient (not comparable)

1. In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

Synonyms

• (beginning): beginning, commencing, emerging, starting, inchoate, nascent

Translations

Noun

incipient (countable and uncountable, plural incipients)

1. (countable, obsolete) beginner
2. (uncountable, grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Synonyms

• (beginner): beginner, inceptor

Related terms

• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• incipiently
• incipit

Anagrams

• Picentini

Latin

Verb

incipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of incipi?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excipi?ns, present participle of excipi?. See except.

Noun

excipient (plural excipients)

1. (pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
2. An exceptor.

Related terms

• concipient
• incipient
• intercipient
• recipient

Translations

Adjective

excipient (comparative more excipient, superlative most excipient)

1. Taking an exception.

References

• excipient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Verb

excipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excipi?

Romanian

Etymology

From French excipient

Noun

excipient n (plural excipien?i)

1. excipient

Declension