inception
in-SEP-shunnounMeaning the moment at which something is founded or begun
Memory hook IN-CEPT-ion: the moment the idea is TAKEN IN. Lin bites into her grandmother’s bread and cries, “I’ll open a bakery!” That moment was the bakery’s inception.
From its inception, the bakery was famous for its cinnamon rolls.
In context The festival has grown enormously since its inception in 1990, when a dozen neighbors set up card tables in a parking lot.
Similar beginning, start, founding, outset
Opposite end, conclusion, close
From Latin inceptio, “a beginning,” from incipere, “to begin, take in hand”: in + capere (to take).