exordium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“I begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“I begin”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
exordium (plural exordiums or exordia)
- (formal) A beginning.
- The introduction to an essay or discourse.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.
Translations
beginning
introduction to an essay or discourse
Dutch
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Noun
exordium n (plural exordia)
- introduction, preface (to an essay or plea)
Latin
Etymology
From exordior.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈsoːr.di.um/, [ɛkˈs̠oːrd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsor.di.um/, [eɡˈzɔrd̪ium]
Noun
exōrdium n (genitive exōrdiī or exōrdī); second declension
- beginning, commencement
- introduction, preface
- foundation, creation
- ab exordio urbis
- From the beginning / founding of the city
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | exōrdium | exōrdia |
Genitive | exōrdiī exōrdī1 |
exōrdiōrum |
Dative | exōrdiō | exōrdiīs |
Accusative | exōrdium | exōrdia |
Ablative | exōrdiō | exōrdiīs |
Vocative | exōrdium | exōrdia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “exordium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exordium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exordium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
- the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
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