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incipient
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)
- 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)
- (countable, obsolete) beginner
- (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
- third-person plural future active indicative of incipi?
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immature
English
Etymology
From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unr?pe (“unripe, immature”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??tj??(?)/, /?m??t???(?)/, /?m??t??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)
- (now rare) Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death). [from 16th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 481:
- And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […] .
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 481:
- Not fully formed or developed; not grown. [from 17th c.]
- Childish in behavior; juvenile. [from 20th c.]
- Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
- Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
Synonyms
- (childish in behavior): infantile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish
Translations
Noun
immature (plural immatures)
- An immature member of a species.
Related terms
- mature
- immaturity
French
Adjective
immature (plural immatures)
- immature, unripe
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
immature
- inflection of immatur:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
immature
- feminine plural of immaturo
Anagrams
- ammutire
Latin
Adjective
imm?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of imm?t?rus
References
- immature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- immature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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