Pronounced: sih-KWEH-stir, verb
Notes: I knew one meaning well, but the other one I didn’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word exordium is “the beginning or introductory part of anything, but especially of a discourse, treatise, etc
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
I am pretty sure I have written an exordium or so: I just didn’t know that there was a word for it. Our word came from the Latin words ex- (out; from) and ordiri (to begin).
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