inchoate

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
2. Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
3. Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.

Noun

A beginning, an immature start.

Verb

1. (transitive) To begin or start (something).
2. (transitive) To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
3. (intransitive) To make a start.

Conceptos

incipiente

incoativo

comenzar

rudimentario

embrional

principiar

empezar

Sinónimos

incipient

inchoative

inceptive

rudimentary

imperfect

incomplete

initiate

sketchy

starting

begin

half baked

beginning

commence

deficient

elementary

Traducciones

inchoatif

incipiente

incipiente

yeni başlamış

ατελής

unausgereift

incoativo

gelişmemiş

unvollständig

μόλις αρχίσας

inchoativ

ανοργάνωτος

νεοφανής

débutant

anfangend

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪnˈkəʊət/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con español: incoar

In summary

The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb circa 1631; borrowed from Latin incohātus (“begun, unfinished”), perfect passive participle of incohō (“to begin”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Cognate with Spanish incoar (“to initiate, commence, begin”).