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fons et origo (iou)



fons et origo noun phr. E19.
[Latin.]
The source and origin (of). Earliest in fons et origo mali ['m¨»:li], the source and origin of evil.
A. N. Wilson The fons et origo of his devotion to Catholicism was that it was the ancient faith of Europe.