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noun the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
noun the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life
originFrom Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude. By surface analysis, rude + -i- + -ment.
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