ab origine

See also: aborigine, Aborigine, and aborígine

English

Etymology

From Latin ab (“from”) + origine, ablative singular of origo (“earliest beginning, lineage, origin”)

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /æb əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/, /æb əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/

Adjective

ab origine

  1. From the origin; from the beginning. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]

References
  1. “ab origine” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 6.

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