English
exord
Exord comes from Latin exordium ‘beginning, commencement’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexordium‘beginning, commencement’
- Englishearliest quotation 1830exord
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexordium‘beginning, commencement’
- Englishearliest quotation 1830exord
Earliest quotation: 1830, Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poe: “One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken…”
Every English word from Latin exordium
Today it means
noun A preface or prefatory passage.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exordium / exord