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1. 기원, 시작, 근원, 개시

1. a beginning, origin, commencement plur at the very beginning at the beginning

예문

• ita significata sunt ecclesiae primordia adhuc crescentis, ut essent vires etiam compellendi. (Augustine, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., 39. (A. D. 416 Epist. CLXXIII) Donato Presbytero Partis Donati Augustinus Episcopus Ecclesiae Catholicae 10:18)

  (아우구스티누스, 편지들, 10:18)

• Livius Drusus, vir acer et vehemens, eum leges novas et mala Gracchana movisset stipatus ingenti totius Italiae coetu, exitum rerum non pervidens, quas nec agere licebat nec iam liberum erat semel incohatas relinquere, execratus inquietam a primordia vitam dicitur dixisse uni sibi ne puero quidem umquam ferias contigisse. (Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, Liber X, ad Pavlinvm: de brevitate vitae 28:1)

  (세네카, , 28:1)

• Nisi aliter existimamus diversum orbem gentes universas petisse relicto patrio solo, Achaeos dico et Hiberos, Albanos quoque nec minus Siculos et, ut primordia nostra contingam, Pelasgos, Aborigines, Arcadas, quam quia malos vicinos ferre non potuerant. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 1, chapter 3 6:3)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 1권, 3장 6:3)

• liberator haud dubie Germaniae et qui non primordia populi Romani, sicut alii reges ducesque, sed florentissi- mum imperium lacessierit, proeliis ambiguus, bello non victus. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER II, chapter 88 88:4)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 88장 88:4)

• et multo gratantum concursu ad capienda imperii primordia G. Caesar egrediebatur, cum repente adfertur redire Tiberio vocem ac visus vocarique qui recreandae defectioni cibum adferrent. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, book 6, chapter 50 50:14)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, 6권, 50장 50:14)

유의어 사전

1. Initium denotes the beginning in an abstract sense, as the mere point from which a thing begins, in opp. to exitus. Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 39. Tusc. i. 38. Brut. 34. Sen. Ep. 9. N. Q. iii. 29; whereas principium denotes the beginning as a concrete notion, as that part of the whole which stands before the other parts in things, and goes before them in actions, in opp. to extremum. Cic. Cleunt. 4. Orat. 61, 204. Cæc. 15, 44. In initium the beginning is made only with reference to time; in principium the foundation also is laid with reference to space. The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows. The initia philosophiæ are the rudiments over which the scholar goes, and which are superseded by further studies; the principia are the fundamental principles, to which he must always recur. Initio usually means “at the beginning, but differently (or, not at all) afterwards;” whereas principio means from the very beginning, and so onwards. 2. Primordium is a more solemn and comprehensive term than principium, and supposes a whole of great extent, the beginning of which is so far removed that one can distinguish a merely apparent beginning from the actual and primeval source and origin. (iii. 163.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein