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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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exōrdium: neut nom/voc/acc sg · neut gen pl (poetic)

• exordĭum, ii, n. [exordior, I.].
  1. I. Prop., the beginning, the warp of a web (rare): non possum togam praetextam sperare, cum exordium pullum videam, Quint. 5, 10, 71.—
  2. II. Transf., in gen., a beginning, commencement (the usual meaning; syn.: initium, principium, primordium): neve inde navis inchoandae exordium Coepisset, quae, etc., Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 282 ed. Vahl.): hujus quoque exordium mali, quoniam principium boni diximus, explicemus, Cic. Inv. 1, 3, 3; cf.: institutae rei publicae clarum ac tam omnibus notum, id. Rep. 2, 2: a qua totius vitae ducat exor dium, id. Fin. 5, 7, 18; cf.: a quibus tempo ribus scribendi capiat exordium, id. Leg. 1, 3, 8: paene ab exordio Urbis, Suet. Vesp. 8; id. Tib. 42: tertius (annus) a prima vigilia sumens exordium, Amm. 26, 1, 9.—In plur.: rerum, Lucr. 2, 333; 3, 31; 4, 114; cf. Verg. E. 6, 33: priva animaï, Lucr. 3, 380: solis lunaeque, id. 5, 471: rationis, id. 1, 149: primae pugnae, Verg. A. 7, 40 et saep.—
    1. B. In partic., of speech: saepe animadverti, summos oratores in dicendi exordio permoveri, Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 122: ergo ita nascetur exordium, id. Tusc. 1, 4 fin.—As part of a speech or writing, the introduction, exordium, proëm, preface (syn.: prooemium, praefatio, prologus): exordium est principium orationis, per quod animus auditoris aut judicis constituitur vel apparatur ad audiendum, Auct. Her. 1, 3, 4; cf. Quint. 4, 1, 1 sq.: tum denique id, quod primum est dicendum, postremum soleo cogitare, quo utar exordio, Cic. de Or. 2, 77 fin.: proximus liber a prima parte, id est exordio incipiet, Quint. 3, 11, 28; 1, 12, 19: in exordio pro Milone, id. 9, 4, 133; 9, 4, 74 et saep.— In plur., Quint. 11, 3, 161: quae prima exordia sumat? Verg. A. 4, 284.—
      1. 2. Transf., a writing, treatise, in gen., Col. 5, 11, 13; 7, 5, 1; 7, 12, 1 al.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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exōrdium: neut nom/voc/acc sg · neut gen pl (poetic)

• exōrdĭum, ĭī, n. (exordior),
1. ourdissage, commencement d'un tissage : Quint. 5, 10, 71
2. commencement, principe, origine : rei publicæ exordium Cic. Rep. 2, 4, origine de l'État ; a quibus temporibus scribendi capiat exordium Cic. Leg. 1, 8 [la question de savoir] de quelle époque il doit faire partir son récit, cf. Fin. 5, 18 || commencement d'un discours, exorde, début : quo utar exordio Cic. de Or. 2, 315, [je me demande] quel doit être mon exorde || ouvrage, traité, essai : Col. Rust. 5, 11, 13.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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exōrdium: neut nom/voc/acc sg · neut gen pl (poetic)

EXORDIVM i. n. [προοίμιον, φροίμιον, ἀρχὴ] Proprie ad texendi rationem pertinet, vt verbum exordior. […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• EXORDIUM
exordium (introduction or opening of a speech, Cic.): exorsus, us (only once; exorsus orationis meae, Cic., De Imp. Pomp., 4, 11): prooemium (Cic., Cluent., 21; mostly = introduction to the subject to be treated of, e.g., in a philosophical treatise). To consider vfhat my exordium is to be, cogitare, quo utar exordio (Cic.). ☞ Praefatio is used by Cic., and Livy in the sense of a solemn form pronounced before some public act, etc.; in Quintilian and Pliny = preface, prefatory matter; dicere praefationem (Plin., Ep.).