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originary

originary

1 9.0
Happening at the very beginning of something
  • adjective
  • /ɔːrˈdʒɪnəri/
: originario
  • The second reason for taking Thorkelin's preface seriously is that it has originary status in the history of Beowulf scholarship.
  • originary context
  • originary moment
  • originary experience

So a originary, a beginning being, right?

Examples

  • If indeed actual famine was the originary context, the parable's economic features would have been much clearer for auditors.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The cakewalk is the originary moment where something new is produced by this American experiment, if you will.

    Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance (2020)

  • According to this theory, the circumstances of an artifact's fabrication, its originary context, are registered in its physical features.

    Academic text (2005)

  • For urban hiplife audiences, the originary symbol is the studio recording or the music video performance.

    Academic text (2009)

  • In the first story, God creates an originary human being, called Adam in Hebrew, and then divides Adam into two genders.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Identifying such moments of originary exclusion or marginalization is crucial to the creation of viable state-building processes.

    Academic text (2004)

  • In an exploration of human history, the archaeologist studied the originary artifacts found in the ancient settlement.

  • The book delves into the originary myths that shaped the cultural identity of the community.

  • Understanding the originary language of the region can provide insights into its early inhabitants.

Antonyms

subsequent
182 4.4

Happening after something else in time

Surface Forms

originary positive

Morphology

originary = origin (transparent) = origin + ary

The adjective is directly formed from the noun 'origin' with the productive adjective-forming suffix '-ary', so the meaning 'relating to origin' is clear to learners.

Etymology

The word originary comes from the Latin root oriri, which means 'to rise' and gave us origin and original. Think of something rising at the very start, so originary means about the first, beginning part of something.