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   fons et origo

   /ˌfɒnz ɛt əˈrʌɪɡəʊ/

   noun

   • 1. the source and origin of something: "they recognized the sixties as the fons et origo of music as they knew it"

   Word Origin Latin, originally as fons et origo mali ‘the source and origin of evil’.

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