Inception is the point at which something began. Since its inception, from inception, the inception of the scheme.
It appears almost only in the phrase since its inception, which is the formal way to say since it started. The film gave the word a second life meaning something planted inside something of its own kind.
1nouninceptionThe point at which something began.
“From the very inception of the project, there were arguments about money.”
inception is a beginning.
Latin inceptio comes from incipere, to begin, from in- plus capere, to take.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
inceptiō
English, today
inception
Built from
Late Middle English -, borrowed from Latin inceptiō, from inceptus, perfect passive participle of incipiō (“to begin”). The layering sense derives from the 2010 science fiction film Inception, in which a team of people infiltrate someone’s subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams with the goal of causing the target to incept an idea.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA