nascent

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The Word of the Day for April 27 is:

nascent   \NASS-unt\   adjective
     : coming or having recently come into existence

Example sentence:
     In today's fast-paced world, we seem to read one day of a new technology 
in the nascent stages of development, and the next of its being obsolete.

Did you know?
     "Nascent" comes from "nascens," the present participle of the Latin verb 
"nasci," which means "to be born." It is a relative newcomer to the collection 
of English words that derive from that Latin verb. In fact, when the word 
"nascent" was itself a newborn, in the first quarter of the 17th century, other 
"nasci" offspring were already respectably mature. "Nation," "native," and 
"nature" had been around since the 1300s; "innate" and "natal," since the 
1400s. More recently, we picked up some French descendants of "nasci": "nee" in 
the 1700s and "Renaissance" in the 1800s. Our newest "nasci" word? It may well 
be "perinatology," which was first used in the late 1960s to name the 
specialized branch of medicine concerned with childbirth.