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

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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.
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      1. 1. ŏrīgo, ĭnis, f. (gen. term): the o. (rise) of all things, o. rerum, Cic. Tim. 3: to derive o. from any one, ab aliquo (auctore) o. ducere, Hor. Od. 3, 17, 5: also, o. deducere, trahere, Plin.
      2. 2. princĭpium (the beginning or first principle of anything: whereas origo is simply the first rise or coming into being of anything: cf. Cic. Rep. 6, 25, principio nulla est origo): the source and o. of motion, fons, pr. movendi, Cic. Rep. 6, 25: to trace the o.s of things to the gods, principia rerum a diis ducere, id. Vat. 6, init.: v. beginning.
      3. 3. ortus, ūs (= origo: but less freq.): to call to mind the earliest o. of anything, alicujus rei primum o. recordari, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, fin.: Ov. See also source. Phr.: (the Belgae) of German o., orti a Germanis., Caes. B. G. 2, 4: of mean o. (no family), nullis majoribus ortus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 10: in plain prose, loco obscuro tenuique fortuna ortus, Liv. 26, 6, fin.: a remoter o. is denoted by oriundus: born at Carthage, but of Syracusan o. (extraction), natus Carthagine sed oriundus ab Syracusis, Liv. 24, 6, init. See also descent, family, stock.
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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• ORIGIN
origo: ortus (of the place from which a thing comes): primordia, plur., (primitive state or condition): principium (beginning). Figuratively, fons: stirps; caput; radices, plur.; incunabula, plur. The second and third books treat of the origin of the Italian states, secundus et tertius liber continet unde quaeque civitas orta sit Italica (Nep., Cat., 3, 3): to have its origin in anything, originem ab aliquo habere (Plin.), trahere (Liv.), ducere (Hor.); emanare ex aliquo fonte (Cic.); ortum, natum esse, proficisci ab aliqua re; gigni ex aliqua re.