a term signifying the beginning of a thing or action; the same with what is otherwise called inceptive.

INCHOATIVE verbs, denote, according to Priscian and other grammarians, verbs that are characterized by the termination -scō or -scor, added to their primitives: as augescō from augeo, callescō from caleo, dullescō from dulcis, irascō from ira, &c.