principia

noun

1. First principles; elementary material.

   archaic

   I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]

   1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry principia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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