incipient

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The Word of the Day for June 10 is: 

incipient   \in-SIP-ee-unt\   adjective
         : beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Example sentence:
         A sudden increase in bickering and quarrels marked an 
incipient jealousy between the two stars of the television 
series.

Did you know?
     A good starting point for any investigation of "incipient" 
is the Latin verb "incipere," which means "to 
begin." "Incipient" first emerged in English in a scientific 
text of 1669 that referred to "incipient putrefaction." Later 
came the genesis of two related nouns, "incipiency" 
and "incipience," both of which are synonymous 
with "beginning." "Incipere" also stands at the beginning of the 
words "inception" ("an act, process, or instance of beginning") 
and "incipit," a term that means literally "it begins" and which 
was used for the opening words of a medieval text. "Incipere" 
itself derives from another Latin verb, "capere," which 
means "to take" or "to seize."