rudiments

RUDIMENTS

initia elementa rudimenta (with or without prima). To learn the rudiments prima elementa discere: to be instructed in the rudiments primis elementis or litteris imbui: to be still engaged in the rudiments in tirociniis haerere: to be but a little beyond the rudiments paulum aliquid ultra primas litteras progressum esse. To know the rudiments of an art aliqua arte imbutum esse.