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in grammar. The roots or essential letters of words. The words are crude or unfinished. Thus am-is the crude form of the verb amo; bon-of the adjective bonus; and domin- of the noun dominus.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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