The initial portion of some extended thing.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
The part between the beginning and the end.
A centre, midpoint.
The middle stump.
The central part of a human body; the waist.
The middle voice.
Pertaining to the middle voice.
Located in the middle; in between.
Central.