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Meet a word : Ab initio
Ab initio
Adverb
Meaning : from the beginning
Example Sentence
What does not exist ab initio is wealth; wealth must be created by sustained human effort
Did you know
We’ll tell you right from the beginning where " ab initio " comes from. This adverb was adopted at the end of the 16th century directly from Latin, and it translates, unsurprisingly, as " from the beginning " ( " Initio " is a form of the noun " initium " meaning " beginning " which gave rise to such English words as " initial " " initiate " and " initiative " ) " Ab initio " most frequently appears in legal contexts, but our example sentence is not out of the norm. Recently, people have also begun using " ab initio " as an adjective meaning " starting from or based on first principles " as in predicted from ab initio calculations