Nascent

 WORD OF THE DAY

nascent / adjective / NASS-unt

Definition
: coming or having recently come into existence

Examples
"Mr Menon has co-founded multiple organizations and has invested in over 20 nascent startups in the previous year alone."
— Business World, 2 Mar. 2022

A few centuries late, when the nascent science of geology was gathering evidence for the earth's enormous antiquity, some advocates of biblical literalism revived this old argument for our entire planet.
— Stephen Jay Gould, Granta 16, Summer 1985

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: née in the 1700s and Renaissance in the 1800s.
One of our newer nasci words is perinatology, which was first used in the late 1960s to name the specialized branch of medicine concerned with childbirth.