Element Definition
- foreign land
- the first or basic principles; rudiments
- wind, rain, and the other forces of nature that make the weather
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Element
- the elements
Origin of Element
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From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”); origin uncertain. Perhaps ultimately from L M N, first three letters of the second half of the Canaanite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it (in sense compare English ABC(s) (“fundamentals”)).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French from Latin elementum perhaps ultimately from lmn first three letters of the second half of the Canaanite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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