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Word of the DayFriday, June 25, 2004

ab ovo

\ab-OH-voh\ , adverb:
1.
From the beginning.
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Quotes:
I will begin ab ovo -- at the very beginning.
-- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The performers do not have to discover these techniques and processes ab ovo; they learn them from the previous generation, who learned them from their predecessors, and so on.
-- William L. Benzon, Beethoven's Anvil
Origin:
Ab ovo is from Latin, literally, "from the egg."
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