exordium

名词 n.
/ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/    /ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A beginning. formal
  2. The introduction to an essay or discourse.
    — Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.

词形变化

exordiums plural exordia plural

词汇关系

词源

Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”).
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