Etymology

exordium

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Latin exordium
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromexordium“beginning, commencement”
  2. English todayexordium

Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”).

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