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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈkəʊ.ə.tɪv/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈkoʊətɪv/

形容詞

inchoative (not comparable)

1. Initial; as yet unformed; inchoate.
   • 1648, Walter Montagu, “The One and Twentieth Treatise. Of the Preheminences of a True Contemplative Life. §. I. Contemplation Defined, and Some Excellencies thereof Discoursed.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 387:

     [T]he day-Star […] ſhall be riſen in our hearts; vvhereof theſe acts of our intellect ſeem to be ſome inchoative or imperfect rays, […]

   • 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Our first Piece is of Winter, or late Autumn, 1771,—while the solution of the Polish Business is still in its inchoative stages; …

2. (grammar) Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
   • 1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 12:

     The inchoative (inceptive) aspect of a verb expresses the beginning of an action. Example: He is beginning to crawl.

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).

派生語

関連する語

• inchoate

参考

• fientive
• inceptive

名詞

inchoative (plural inchoatives)

1. (grammar) An inchoative construction.

参考

• emerging
• prospective

参照

• inchoative aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “inchoative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inchoative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.