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Brewer's: Crude Forms
in grammar. The roots or essential letters of words. The words are crude or unfinished. Thus am—is the crude form of the verb amo; bon—of the adjective bonus; and domin —of the noun dominus.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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