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fons et origo noun [ ˌfɒnz ɛt ˈɒrɪɡəʊ ]

• the source and origin of something.
• "they recognized the sixties as the fons et origo of music as they knew it"
Origin: Latin, originally as fons et origo mali ‘the source and origin of evil’.


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