exordium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm/ === Noun === exordium (plural exordiums or exordia) (formal) A beginning. The introduction to an essay or discourse. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin exordium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɛkˈsɔr.di.ʏm/ Hyphenation: exor‧di‧um === Noun === exordium n (plural exordia or exordiums, no diminutive) introduction, preface (to an essay or plea) == Latin == === Etymology === From exōrdior. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈsoːr.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eɡˈzɔr.di.um] === Noun === exōrdium n (genitive exōrdiī or exōrdī); second declension beginning, commencement Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, orīgō, rudīmentum, limen Antonym: fīnis introduction, preface, start or beginning of a speech foundation, creation ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 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.