See exordium on Wiktionary
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/En-us-exordium.ogg"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "načalo",
"sense": "beginning",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "начало"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "beginning",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exórdio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "načálo",
"sense": "beginning",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "нача́ло"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beginning",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exordio"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uvod",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "увод"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎvedenie",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "въведение"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exordi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "alkusanat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"word": "johdanto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exórdio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vstuplénije",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "вступле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vvedénije",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "введе́ние"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "introduction to an essay or discourse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exordio"
}
],
"word": "exordium"
}
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"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin neuter nouns",
"Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin second declension nouns",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "exordi"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: exordi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: exordi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "exord",
"3": "exordium"
},
"expansion": "English: exord, exordium",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: exord, exordium"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "exorde"
},
"expansion": "French: exorde",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: exorde"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "exordio"
},
"expansion": "Galician: exordio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: exordio"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "esordio"
},
"expansion": "Italian: esordio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: esordio"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "exórdio"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: exórdio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: exórdio"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "exordio"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: exordio",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: exordio"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From exōrdior.",
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{
"form": "exōrdium",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "exōrdium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdiīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "exōrdia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "exōrdium n (genitive exōrdiī or exōrdī); second declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "exōrdium<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
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],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "fīnis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"beginning, commencement"
],
"links": [
[
"beginning",
"beginning"
],
[
"commencement",
"commencement"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "initium"
},
{
"word": "prīmōrdium"
},
{
"word": "prīncipium"
},
{
"word": "orīgō"
},
{
"word": "rudīmentum"
},
{
"word": "limen"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Oh, what should he do now? How is he to solicit the distraught queen, [and] dare implore her? Which first words ought he choose?\n(Aeneas commits to leave Carthage and ponders the doubly emphatic “prima exordia.” Idiomatically, what does he even begin to tell Dido? How can he broach the subject with her?)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.283–284",
"roman": "audeat adfātū? Quae prīma exōrdia sūmat?",
"text": "Heu quid agat? Quō nunc rēgīnam ambīre furentem"
}
],
"glosses": [
"introduction, preface, start or beginning of a speech"
],
"links": [
[
"introduction",
"introduction"
],
[
"preface",
"preface"
],
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"beginning",
"beginning"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "from the founding of the city (especially Rome)",
"text": "ab exordio urbis",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"foundation, creation"
],
"links": [
[
"foundation",
"foundation"
],
[
"creation",
"creation"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ekˈsoːr.di.um/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ɛkˈs̠oːrd̪iʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ekˈsor.di.um/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[eɡˈzɔrd̪ium]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "exordium"
}
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