Pronounced: SPUHD-uhl, verb/noun
Notes: I don’t know this word, but it looked like a combination of “spud” and “puddle”
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase ab initio means “from the beginning”
First usage
Our phrase came into English in the beginning of the 1600s
Background / Comments
Our phrase came directly from the Latin phrase ab initio (from the beginning). It is usually found in legal contexts (the phrase can be used as an adjective meaning “starting from or based on first principles”).
