enascent

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/ɪˈnæsənt/

adjective

Just coming into being; nascent.

OriginLatin nāscor →
Scrabble 10
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Meanings

adjectiveenascent (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareJust coming into being; nascent.

    1744–1745, William Warburton, Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections. in which, you just get the first glimpse, as it were, of an enascent equivocation.

    1 more example

    With sweet vicissitudes of day and clime / Mark'd the new annals of enascent Time.

    1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 61

Origin

  1. Latinēnāscēns
  2. Latinnāscor“be born”
  3. Englishenascent

From e- (“out”) + Latin nāscor (“be born”) + -ent, from Latin ēnāscēns, present participle of ēnāscor (“spring up”), from ēx- (“out”) + nāscor (“be born”).

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Chicago

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