nascent
adjective

- only recently formed or started, but likely to grow larger quickly

Cambridge Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

Nascent comes from nascens, 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, in the 1800s, we picked up the word “Renaissance” a French descendant of nasci.

Our newest nasci word is “perinatology”, which was first used in the late 1960s to name the specialized branch of medicine concerned with childbirth.

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THE WHO?

According to legend, while brainstorming for a name for their nascent band one evening, Roger Daltry and his bandmates, already partially deaf, kept asking one another: “The who?”… “The who?”… and soon enough ‘The Who’ was born.

Helga & Paul Smith

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SYNONYMS

arising, budding, blooming, burgeoning, bursting forth, dawning, emergent, emerging, in its infancy, in the making, in the springtime of life, NASCENT, sprouting, rising, up-and-coming

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SMUGGLE OWAD into an English conversation today, say something like:

"Can NASCENT green technologies really replace fossil fuels by 2030?"