inchoative

Meanings

1. Initial; as yet unformed; inchoate.
2. Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
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).

1. An inchoative construction.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inchoātīvus, formed by metathesis from incohātīvus, from incohō (“to begin”). Compare French inchoatif.